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Strange character ¥ appears where it should be a backslash \

[quote user="irelam"]As a partial solution I am considering having a hot key in Pegasus Mail (Bearhtml) to allow charset changes, which would allow some kinds of corrections. this solution may appear in the New Year.[/quote]

That's great, thanks Martin.

Ellie

<p>[quote user="irelam"]As a partial solution I am considering having a hot key in Pegasus Mail (Bearhtml) to allow charset changes, which would allow some kinds of corrections. this solution may appear in the New Year.[/quote]</p><p>That's great, thanks Martin.</p><p>Ellie </p>

I have recently received a couple of emails containing the symbol backslash \ but it appears like this: ¥ as in:

c:¥Program Files¥Directory¥Program¥subdirectory

This should obviously read:

 c:\Program Files\Directory\Program\subdirectory

 When I bounce this mail to a hotmail address (and read it on the web forum on which it was composed) the path is as it should be.

I am perfectly able to type this letter in when composing in Pegasus mail. When I am sent a mail composed in Pegasus Mail the \ comes in just fine.

What is causing this? More important, how can I fix it? It has caused me some confusion, as you might imagine.

Cheers!

Ellie

<p>I have recently received a couple of emails containing the symbol backslash \ but it appears like this: ¥ as in: </p><p>c:¥Program Files¥Directory¥Program¥subdirectory</p><p>This should obviously read:</p><p> c:\Program Files\Directory\Program\subdirectory</p><p> When I bounce this mail to a hotmail address (and read it on the web forum on which it was composed) the path is as it should be. </p><p>I am perfectly able to type this letter in when composing in Pegasus mail. When I am sent a mail composed in Pegasus Mail the \ comes in just fine. </p><p>What is causing this? More important, how can I fix it? It has caused me some confusion, as you might imagine. </p><p>Cheers!</p><p>Ellie </p>

I thought I should add that if I compose an email in Hotmail and send and read in Pmail, the \ appears just fine. This anomaly is coming in on a forum such as this one (but obviously not this one).

 

<p>I thought I should add that if I compose an email in Hotmail and send and read in Pmail, the \ appears just fine. This anomaly is coming in on a forum such as this one (but obviously not this one).</p><p> </p>

Quote from Wikipedia:

"In the Japanese editions of Microsoft operating systems, the yen sign in code page 932 character encoding has the same byte value as the backslash in ASCII. It is also used wherever a backslash is used, such as the directory separator character and the general escape character, essentially making it a backslash with a yen sign look (...)."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/¥



<P>Quote from Wikipedia: </P><P>"In the <STRONG>Japanese editions of Microsoft operating systems</STRONG>, the yen sign in code page 932 character encoding has the same byte value as the backslash in ASCII. It is also used wherever a backslash is used, such as the directory separator character and the general escape character, essentially making it a backslash with a yen sign look (...)."</P><P><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/¥" mce_href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/¥">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/¥</A></P><P> </P><P> </P>

Which would make total sense if I had a Japanese edition of Microsoft OS.

 

But as I don't?

<p>Which would make total sense if I had a Japanese edition of Microsoft OS.</p><p> </p><p>But as I don't? </p>

It would be useful if you could confirm the Raw View Charset coded information at the start of the message. Additionally if you can see the message parts, the charset information for the parts. As you are using standard US Ascii, any displaying of the Yen must be within a stream defined as Far Eastern.

Martin 

<p>It would be useful if you could confirm the Raw View Charset coded information at the start of the message. Additionally if you can see the message parts, the charset information for the parts. As you are using standard US Ascii, any displaying of the Yen must be within a stream defined as Far Eastern.</p><p>Martin </p>

Hi Martin

Content-Type: text/html; charset="shift_jis"

Head content:

<head><META http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html;chars=
et=3Dshift_jis"></head>

Body content has no charset

Ellie

&lt;p&gt;Hi Martin &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Content-Type: text/html; charset=&quot;shift_jis&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Head content:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;head&amp;gt;&amp;lt;META http-equiv=3D&quot;Content-Type&quot; content=3D&quot;text/html;chars= et=3Dshift_jis&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/head&amp;gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Body content has no charset &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ellie &lt;/p&gt;

That confirms the charset as Japanese. The display is correct, and the charset representation is correct. The only way the originator could avoid this problem is to change to forward-facing slash. But then the url would have to be edited by the viewer (if not Japanese) to be useful.

Martin

&lt;p&gt;That confirms the charset as Japanese. The display is correct, and the charset representation is correct. The only way the originator could avoid this problem is to change to forward-facing slash. But then the url would have to be edited by the viewer (if not Japanese) to be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Martin &lt;/p&gt;

It's only Pmail that shows this like this, it seems. At least viewed in web clients it does not show this strange character.

Now if I wanted to type a yen sign I would have to dig out the character map, select, copy, paste, or remember the shortcut keys. 

[;)]

Thanks Martin.

&lt;p&gt;It&#039;s only Pmail that shows this like this, it seems. At least viewed in web clients it does not show this strange character.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now if I wanted to type a yen sign I would have to dig out the character map, select, copy, paste, or remember the shortcut keys.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;[;)]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thanks Martin. &lt;/p&gt;

Ellie,  The reason that browsers work is that the html stream does not include Charset info in a meta tag, so the browser uses the local charset (Ascii), and so there comes the back-slash. The email mime headers do contain a Charset (Japanese), and that is what the originator intended to be used to draw the characters. Therefore Pegasus Mail 1,  Browsers 0

 

Martin 

&lt;p&gt;Ellie, &amp;nbsp;The reason that browsers work is that the html stream does not include Charset info in a meta tag, so the browser uses the local charset (Ascii), and so there comes the back-slash. The email mime headers do contain a Charset (Japanese), and that is what the originator intended to be used to draw the characters. Therefore Pegasus Mail 1, &amp;nbsp;Browsers 0&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img width=&quot;19&quot; height=&quot;19&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://community.pmail.com/emoticons/emotion-1.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Martin&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

The interesting this is that this must be caused by where the forum is hosted. The contributers are from the English speaking world, at least for the most part.

Is there some way for the forum hosts to prevent this? Although I suspect that I might be the only one who had this happen. Maybe Mac mailers don't get caught with this? Although, as you point out and I now appreciate, normally it would be a desirable feature of Pegasus.

&lt;p&gt;The interesting this is that this must be caused by where the forum is hosted. The contributers are from the English speaking world, at least for the most part.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is there some way for the forum hosts to prevent this? Although I suspect that I might be the only one who had this happen. Maybe Mac mailers don&#039;t get caught with this? Although, as you point out and I now appreciate, normally it would be a desirable feature of Pegasus. &lt;/p&gt;

There is no easy way to solve this. The originator has to be aware of the charset issue if they intend to broadcast internationally. As a partial solution I am considering having a hot key in Pegasus Mail (Bearhtml) to allow charset changes, which would allow some kinds of corrections. this solution may appear in the New Year.

Martin 

&lt;p&gt;There is no easy way to solve this. The originator has to be aware of the charset issue if they intend to broadcast internationally. As a partial solution I am considering having a hot key in Pegasus Mail (Bearhtml) to allow charset changes, which would allow some kinds of corrections. this solution may appear in the New Year.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Martin&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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