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Eudora extra characters

2019-09-25
2019-09-26
  • Lawrence M Block

    Is there any solution to the extra characters that occur when both receiving and forwarding email in Eudora 7.1?

    Often they at capital A with a caret and followed by question marks.

    ie: Wednesday or Pro Men’s or  ??

     
    • Pete Maclean

      Pete Maclean - 2019-09-26

      There is a partial solution and a full solution. The full solution comprises the two fixes that are the highest priority issues anyway: enhancing Herme to display Unicode and enabling it to forward messages without corrupting them. (There is nothing special needed to eliminate these two infelicities; they will simply disappear once these enhancements are completed.)

      The partial solution would be to make special cases for some of the characters that give rise to these awkward intrusions. I would especially like to do that for the non-breaking space (which gets displayed as 'Â'). We can do this simply by converting it to a standard space. This would mean it would still be displayed inappropriately in some contexts (giving rise to an unwanted end-of-line) but, on the whole, the behaviour would, I think, be much preferable. And there may be similar conversions that we can do for a few other characters. The good news is that this partial solution should be easily implemented once we get a complete working build of the main executable made -- and we are working hard on this. The full solution will take longer.

       

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