informational message: Unicode

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Linotype

OS 10.4.6
Entourage X 10.1.6

Lately when I reply to some e-mails an information box pops up reading:

"This message must be sent as Unicode, which may not work with older
mail clients. Do you want to send this message as Unicode?"

This is not the first reply being made to this message and this
information box never appeared during previous replies.


First, I don't know what Unicode is and why I get these messages now
after years of using Entourage X.

Second, why now after making several replies already to the very same
e-mail?

Third, does Unicode change the appearance of or alter the e-mail?

Fourth, is there a work around, or solution to eliminating the pop-ups
of this Unicode message?

Thanks in advance for any light you can shed on this annoyance.
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur

Linotype said:
First, I don't know what Unicode is and why I get these messages now
after years of using Entourage X.
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Unicode is a text encoding method allowing you to support a lot more
characters than the defaul set (different forms of accents, different
alphabets, special symbols...).
Second, why now after making several replies already to the very same
e-mail?
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Because you used a special character or symbol in your reply ??

Third, does Unicode change the appearance of or alter the e-mail?
Nope.

Fourth, is there a work around, or solution to eliminating the pop-ups
of this Unicode message?
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:) Yeah, an easy one: don;t use special characters, symbols... ;-))

Corentin
 
L

Linotype

Thank you for the reply Corentin

Looking back at the last e-mail that prompted that Unicode message I
found that somehow the word "can't" was changed to "can’t "

Strange though, that word "can't" was in the previous reply that I had
sent. Only after the e-mail was sent back to me did the word change to
"can’t " and only during a second reply did the Unicode message
pop up.

Not much I can do about what happens to the text after it leaves my
computer.
 
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Barry Wainwright [MVP]

Thank you for the reply Corentin

Looking back at the last e-mail that prompted that Unicode message I
found that somehow the word "can't" was changed to "can’t "

Strange though, that word "can't" was in the previous reply that I had
sent. Only after the e-mail was sent back to me did the word change to
"can’t " and only during a second reply did the Unicode message
pop up.

Not much I can do about what happens to the text after it leaves my
computer.
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What you can do is turn off replacing 'straight quotes with smart quotes' in
the autoformat pane of the autocorrect settings under the tools menu.
 
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Linotype

I had smart quotes turned on for quite a while until I read somewhere
that they can cause problems, so I went back to straight ones.

Guess I'll go back to smart quotes and give them another try.

Thanks for the tip.
 
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