[Fwd: Re: [Evolution] ugly fonts from Outlook users]

[Mike Dougherty <MikeD san rr com>]

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> From: Ben Steeves <bcs metacon ca>
> To: Mike Dougherty <MikeD san rr com>
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] ugly fonts from Outlook users
> Date: 14 Dec 2001 11:53:44 -0400
>
> On Fri, 2001-12-14 at 11:44, Mike Dougherty wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I suppose you could run the mail through your own filtration system to
> change known "out of bounds" characters into their viewable/portable
> equivalents.  You could also set it up to send a nasty e-mail to the
> person who sent you the junk :-)
>
> It would be fairly easy to do in Perl -- you'd just have to make it
> smart enough to only touch text in the body of the message so that
> binary attachments aren't harmed.
>
> > 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. 
>
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