Re: apostrophes showing as ?
On (12:17 06/04/06), Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> put forth the proposition:
> On 06Apr2006 01:53, David Woodfall <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> | When I view some emails I find ' replaced by qestion marks, but only some
> | - some emails show correctly. I've tried using various ansi/non-ansi fonts
> | but I can't seem to correct this. Is this perhaps due to the mailers
> | setup rather than mine?
>
> You see similar stuff on the web sometimes too. A bunch of Microsoft
> tools use other codes for the quote marks instead of just an ASCII
> apostrophe. Do these messages correspond to particular mailer types
> (as frequently shown in the X-Mailer: header)?
I don't see an X-Mailer header in the affected mails.
>
> Meanwhile, amuse yourself here:
>
> http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/
>
> which addresses this kind of issue.
I'm going to experiment putting this in my procmailrc to see if it fixes
the issue:
:0fw
| perl /home/dave/scripts/demoroniser.pl
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743
> http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/
>
> But then, I'm only 50. Things may well get a bit much for me when I
> reach the gasping heights of senile decrepitude of which old Andy
> Woodward speaks with such feeling.
> - Chris Malcolm, cam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, DoD #205
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