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Word wrap in Mail is not working in 10.5.8

When composing an email in Mail, Mail does not correctly wrap the words in sentences - the words break and wrap without any of the correct grammar rules being used, and without a hyphen e.g. the sentence may display in the window as follows:

when i type in Ma
il the text is displ
ayed like this and
the characters ar
e word wrapped i
ncorrectly.

Any ideas.

Various towers, MBP, G4 Minis, Powerbook 180, Mac OS X (10.6.3), Since MacPlus, I drank the Koolaid.

Posted on Jun 28, 2010 9:26 AM

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Aug 23, 2010 7:09 PM in response to Paverman

This may be considered a valuable clue and in my mind points to being a bug in the mail tool itself. I noticed that in my case there was special formatting in the email I was composing. I had started lines with bold texted characters then tabbed over to write text in default format. Above the format changes I was getting the word wrap I would expect. Below the special characters I was getting the anomalous behavior of words being split by wrap.

Steve

Jan 22, 2011 7:23 AM in response to mpitelka

Hi mpitelka,
You suggest changing the text encoding option under the "Message" menu. Of the options in the pull-down "Message" menu, which do you suggest? There's "Automatic", 4 "Western" choices, 2 "Central" and 1 Unicode.

Which is most common? Which works for you to obtain a word wrap pf 70-80 characters (i.e. a format commonly chosen for Windows mail apps?

Word wrap in Mail is not working in 10.5.8

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