[HM] Quotation marks in Mail

[Jim Norman]

Hi Greg,

I'm fairly sure that it has a lot to do with HTML code "&quot" and "  
are equivalent.

The usual reason for such scrambling is when someone is using  
Microsoft Word for their email editor and they are using "smart  
quotes" to get the preferred curly quotes. Another reason can be the  
variation in the computer operating system they are using, the  
operating system of the mail server, and the operating system of the  
sender's computer.

It was less of a problem in the days of strict ASCII text, but  
allowing HTML for email has certainly made it easier to apply  
formatting.

Just put it down to Gates' minions and Jobs' minions deliberately  
trying to be a little bit different to each other so that their own  
ecosystem is "perfect" and the opposition not quite as good.

Jim

On 18/05/2008, at 7:08 AM, Greg McNeil wrote:

> Hi,
> Can anyone tell me why the quotation marks in the kbchanges emails I  
> get from Apple every Saturday appear as " instead of actual  
> quotation " marks.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Greg
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