Slashes become foreign characters?

[Tina Urbain]

I use Entourage 2004 (11.2.5 - 060620) on a Mac with OS 10.3.9, and I have
Entourage set up to default to plain text mail.

When I paste material into my messages containing slashes (/) right next to
certain other characters (I've noticed this with o and l), sometimes they
will become foreign language characters. For example, "/o" will display as
"ø" and "/l" will display as a slash-through-l character. You can imagine
how annoying this is for copying URLs to e-mails.

Has anyone seen this problem before? Any idea what's causing it?

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

I use Entourage 2004 (11.2.5 - 060620) on a Mac with OS 10.3.9, and I have
Entourage set up to default to plain text mail.

When I paste material into my messages containing slashes (/) right next to
certain other characters (I've noticed this with o and l), sometimes they
will become foreign language characters. For example, "/o" will display as
"ø" and "/l" will display as a slash-through-l character. You can imagine
how annoying this is for copying URLs to e-mails.

Has anyone seen this problem before? Any idea what's causing it?

Have you tried this after setting your plain text font (in
Entourage/Preferences/Fonts) to a different font? I have a vague memory that
this was something that happened for one or two specific fonts. Similarly,
have you tried pasting into, say, TextEdit after setting its plain text
font, in its Preferences, to the same font, and then doing Format/Make Plain
Text? (Or, for that matter, just setting the default Rich Text font to that
font?)

If that's not the issue - i.e. if this happens for _every_ font, not just
one or two, then we'll check Character Format settings. But I don't think
that's it.

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Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
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[Daiya Mitchell]

It only happens in certain fonts (for instance, Palatino, so I switched to
using Calisto (14pt)).

In the previous discussion here:

<http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage/browse
_frm/thread/804a0699702ef844/1ce027ccbb1be5d7>

Barry Wainwright informed us that it is simply a display glitch in the OS
with certain fonts. TextEdit does it too.