Re: "smart quotes" was [Evolution] Image/pjpeg

[Dan Winship <danw ximian com>]

> Speaking of supporting nonstandard crap, how about smart quotes?  I
> know, they're a really stupid deviation from the standard

Smart quotes per se aren't a deviation from the standard. The problem is
mailers that use windows-1252 encoding (which includes smart quotes),
but claim that they're using iso-8859-1 (which does not).

Evo handles this fine in text/plain messages, but it's tricker to get it
right in HTML, because there are multiple places where you can lie about
the charset, and multiple different ways you can encode the smart quotes
to make it harder for evo to autodetect them before handing the data off
to gtkhtml.

> I get an e-mail from my university regularly, in html format.  Evo
> displays the mail fine, except the smart quotes.
...
> So I sent my letter anyway, but I didn't have much of a leg to stand
> on.  :-S

If they were doing everything right, it would display correctly in evo.
So they're doing something wrong. Would need to see the email source to
say exactly what.

But I've seen this as well. Apple's various mailings (eNews, Apple
Store, etc) have this problem. So it may be worth filing a bug and
attaching a sample message.

-- Dan