Subject: Handling of apostrophes

From: Bob Rasmussen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 07:55:00 -0700 (PDT)

When Pine (4.42, on Linux) displays a message that contains both an HTML part
and a plainteext part, it tries to parse the HTML part, to some degree. In
doing so, if it finds '&' character entities that it can't handle, it displays
them in numeric form.

A common problem I see is with apostrophes and "smart quotes", such as in
messages created with Microsoft Word. These render in numeric form, and really
impede readability.

A simple suggestion for Pine: have it maintain a very short list of fallback
characters, starting with the 4 or so smart quote characters, and display
normal quotes in these cases.

You can't solve ALL the problems, but you can solve the most common and
annoying ones.

Regards,
....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.

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