Apostrophe conversion

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Apostrophe conversion

In testing my Yahoo Mail account in Safari, I noticed my apostrophes were being converted to '. I understand I can set up Mail to check this account without going through Safari, so this is not critical. Just curious if this is an encoding issue. If I do a search for ' the search engine converts this to " ' ".

Posted on Aug 16, 2008 9:36 AM

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Nathan C

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Aug 16, 2008 1:15 PM in response to arch92

arch92,

This has to do with the font being used in the message, and can occur most often when going between a Unicode (Safari) and a font that doesn't follow the Unicode standard.

Hope this helps,

Nathan C.

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arch92 Author

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Aug 17, 2008 7:42 AM in response to Nathan C

Nathan C.

Thanks for the quick response. Is there any way around this? Is there an option in Safari to use a font/encoding standard that is more compatible with Yahoo Mail?

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Nathan C

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Aug 19, 2008 6:41 AM in response to arch92

arch92,

Unicode is the worldwide standard. If they are HTML emails, the font is determined by the sender of the email.

If not HTML email, the font is determined by the webmail webpage, in this case, Yahoo.

Hope this helps,

Nathan C.

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