Re: Scripting the Location
Re: Scripting the Location
- Subject: Re: Scripting the Location
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 16:55:52 -0700
On 8/28/03 4:34 PM, "John Delacour" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Do you actually type curly quotes into Entourage and get no warning ?!
<OT>
Some people seem to use HTML for all their messages - there are no curly
quotes in Entourage for plain text (except by option-shift -[ and -]) . If
you use HTML, there's an option, which is on by default, to replace straight
quotes by curly quotes. People sometimes don't find that option because it's
not in Entourage/Preferences but rather in Tools/AutoCorrect/AutoFormat, so
it stays on. Quite often they probably like curly quotes anyway. And 99% of
the time, no harm results from sending people messages with curly quotes,
assuming they don't complain about HTML to begin with. Also Entourage sends
all HTML messages in multipart/alternative so anyone without HTML - is there
anyone left? - will get the plain text version and curly quotes will be seen
as straight quotes.
There are only two situations where it leads to problems: this ridiculous
mailing list that's configured wrong for Macs and replaces non-ASCII by
absurd characters, and some Windows email clients which read the curly
quotes OK but then reply in US-ASCII instead of ISO 8859-1 because they
think curly quotes are ASCII, so you get your own quoted text back with
commas instead of quotes.
What sort of warning do you think we should get? And from whom?
<end OT>
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Paul Berkowitz
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