Re: list of Unicode characters

In message <6e689ba055.jim@...>
 on 16 Jul 2016 Jim Nagel  wrote:

> I have MPro version 7.08 (2015-feb-16), and it's tiresome to deal with 
> the likes of   â??   or   é   (which translate to N-dash and e-acute) 
> when people email an article for a magazine.  See attached little 
> screenshot of a test email exported as textfile from MPro.
> 
> Do recent versions of MPro do a better job of saving-as-text when the
> file contains Unicode characters like these?

I feel sure that Messenger used to deal with these better than it does now. 
Before the Unicode improvements were made that allowed Messenger to display
UTF-8 encoded e-mails itself via the Unicode Font Manager, Messenger tried to
convert the text to Latin 1 to display.  What I cannot remember is whether
the saving was also done in Latin 1.

Even in 7.08 if your message is in UTF-8, a text attachment will appear on
the message window which is not actually an attachment but a means of opening
the raw UTF-8 encoded version of the message.  In the days when Messenger Pro
did not attempt to display Unicode, but only the Latin 1 translation, this
fake attachment gave access to the original UTF-8 version. Now it does not
really serve any purpose.

I think that this needs raising with R-Comp as an enhancement.  Perhaps the
"attachment" should be changed to a Latin 1 conversion (where possible) of
the text of the message.

I am also irritated that the improvements mean that if you use a Zap bitmap
font for displaying your messages, the raw UTF-8 characters are displayed, so
é instead of e-acute.  I have mentioned this to Andrew and he was surprised
anyone was still using the bitmap font display.  I just find it nicer to read
than a Corpus fixed-width font or similar.

One work-around, Jim, might be to reply to the message.  Then Messenger will
convert to Latin-1 for the benefit of the editor.  At least it does with an
external editor like Zap, and probably does for the EmailEdit editor.

You might then have to remove a lot of > marks.

-- 
Matthew Phillips
Durham

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