Accented Characters Split Lines and Paragraphs in Entourage

[Jeremy Gillies]

Has anyone else experienced a problem with accented characters and
Entourage?

I receive some emails as HTML digests in French.

In some cases, the html renders so that there is a new-line split between
the accented character of a word and the non-accented character to the left
or right of it.

For example, one title split like this:

Blah blah blah blah blah blah Comit
é


Another example was in a paragraph like this:


Blah blah blah ré
vision Blah blah blah Blah blah blah

Not sure what is going on as they display fine in other clients like
Outlook.

Thanks in advance,
jg

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[CyberTaz]

Just guessing here, Jeremy, but I believe it depends on how the character in
the message is actually constructed - HTML looks at the "bits & pieces" as
"pictures" rather than as fonts & formatting - or what the content should
*look* like. IOW, if the message contains an accented character where the
diacritical mark is a designed-in part of the glyph it will display that
way. If the character actually exists as an alpha glyph combined with an
accent glyph it will most likely get split as two separate characters. I may
be off base or at least not "technically accurate" but then again I've been
known to get lucky now & then

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Jeremy Gillies]

In the past, they have been constructed as HTML entities of some format or
another, mostly decimal equivalents.

I believe now it is UTF-8 -- but it does drop in HTML decimal equivalents
for the accented and other characters.

When I view source, I see this, for example:

Tel qu’il est exigé dans la convention collective de
l’unité de...

What puzzles me is that it displays fine in other email clients -- just not
Entourage (says 11.3.6, but patched to current).

I will double check on the format that it is sent out in though. As a web
page it uses UTF-8 (<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=utf-8">).

Note though that it will sometimes also split on apostrohies too..
For example,

Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah d'
un blah blah blah blah blah blah...

I have a screen shot (I can make more) that I can send you outside if the
newsgroup if you want to have a look.

Thank you,
Jeremy

 

[CyberTaz]

To be honest you'll find far more knowledgeable folks if you carry this on
in the entourage-specific group:

microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage

They'll probably be better able to answer than I.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Jeremy Gillies]

Okay, thank you. I will focus on that group.

To be honest you'll find far more knowledgeable folks if you carry this on
in the entourage-specific group:

microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage

They'll probably be better able to answer than I.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac