"smart quotes" was [Evolution] Image/pjpeg

[Dan Stromberg]

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On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 06:50, Dan Winship wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 07:06, Ted Anderson wrote:
> > As has been reported before, this is not a bug.
>=20
> No, it is. Writing an email client is all about supporting other
> people's non-standard crap. If other widely-used systems send
> "image/pjpeg", then we should support displaying it.
>=20
> -- Dan
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Speaking of supporting nonstandard crap, how about smart quotes?  I
know, they're a really stupid deviation from the standard, but it's also
really fighting a losing battle trying to get people to even understand
there's an issue, let alone get them to change their behavior.


I get an e-mail from my university regularly, in html format.  Evo
displays the mail fine, except the smart quotes.  Trying to be a
diligent defender of standards, I started composing a mail message
saying that the smart quotes only looked right to Microsoft users, and
that they didn't display correctly for Linux and Mac users.

Well, I went and talked to a couple of Mac guys, who told me that Eudora
on Mac displays smart quotes now.

Further, I talked to a linux guy who uses netscape mail, and he tells me
that it displays smart quotes too.

So I sent my letter anyway, but I didn't have much of a leg to stand
on.  :-S

Minor apologies if this has already been laid to rest in 1.4.x.  I'm
still running 1.2.3.

--=20
Dan Stromberg DCS/NACS/UCI <strombrg@dcs.nac.uci.edu>


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