Re: [Evolution] ugly fonts from Outlook users

[Mike Dougherty <MikeD san rr com>]

I've had the same kind of problem when working with documents on
Windoze. The best I can tell is that M$ uses something greater than 127
for some characters. Like the apostrophe in ASCII is 039 but they use
something like 0146. I'm not an expert in this area, but I don't think
there is anything you or Evolution can do about it. Except as you say,
curse Micro$oft. Just another one of those things were they are
purposefully being non-standard just to annoy people.


/mike

On Fri, 2001-12-14 at 06:47, John Klassa wrote:
> When I get mail from Outlook users, it often contains *something* that
> makes for really ugly rendering.  The attached image shows what I mean. 
> The first "box" is really an apostrophe; the thing that looks like a
> capital "J" (or which may actually be a capital "J" :-)) is a smiley. 
> The filth that generated this is:
>
>     <p class=3DMsoNormal><span class=3DEmailStyle17><font size=3D2
>     color=3Dnavy=
>      face=3DArial><span
>     style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I&#8=
>     217;d say
>     you are getting old and senile </span></font></span><span
>     class=3DEmailStyl=
>     e17><font
>     size=3D2 color=3Dnavy face=3DWingdings><span
>     style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;mso-=
>     bidi-font-size:
>     12.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;mso-ascii-font-family:Arial;mso-hansi-font-fam=
>     ily:
>     Arial;mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Wingdings'><span
>     style=3D'mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Wingdings'>J</span></s=
>     pan></font></span><span
>     class=3DEmailStyle17><font size=3D2 color=3Dnavy face=3DArial><span
>     style=
>     =3D'font-size:
>     10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><span
>     style=3D"mso-spac=
>     erun:
>     yes">&nbsp; </span>In any case, I have a number of questions
>     concerning thi=
>     s:<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
>     
> Microsoft be cursed! :-)
>
> Anyway, any thoughts on what I can do to make this look nice?  This kind
> of stuff always comes through in a tiny font (per the attached; my
> default font is much larger), and with missing characters.  I do have
> the wingdings font available (I believe it's referred to in the junk I
> quoted), if you're wondering.
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
> -- 
> John Klassa / Cisco Systems, Inc. / RTP, NC / USA / klassa cisco com /
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