Post #330,285
7/26/10 9:24:09 AM
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Probably em dashes
It was the newsletter. I'll have to look into the mailer to see if there's a way to declare the encoding.
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Drew
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Post #330,290
7/26/10 10:10:07 AM
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Stop using emdashes.....
they aren't cool.
Just use two regular dashes.
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Post #330,292
7/26/10 10:24:02 AM
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Why are they uncool?
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Drew
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Post #330,320
7/26/10 4:43:45 PM
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Because.
The encoding makes it look like spam. :P
As if you didn't know.
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Post #330,321
7/26/10 4:45:18 PM
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The problem is they're the right thing to use.
em dashes have a specific purpose in typesetting that is different from a regular dash, or even two dashes.
Regards,
-scott
Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
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Post #330,322
7/26/10 4:47:56 PM
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Yeah yeah...
I was just yanking his chain. BUT.
Trying to typeset with HTML/CSS/Whatever"web" is the WRONG thing to do. Use a Typesetting language and a rendering tool that can.
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Post #330,326
7/26/10 5:05:01 PM
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I don't control the rendering tool
And what typesetting language should I be using to generate my email? If it's not just chain yanking, I'd like to know what I should be using instead.
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Drew
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Post #330,333
7/26/10 7:14:32 PM
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What *do* you use to build your email?
Q:Is it proper to eat cheeseburgers with your fingers?
A:No, the fingers should be eaten separately.
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Post #330,339
7/26/10 9:46:17 PM
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Create it in vim
Then I copy from there and paste directly into the database in the mailer app.
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Drew
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Post #330,347
7/26/10 10:46:39 PM
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That's moderately impressive.
The newsletter comes through as plain-text as well as HTML. The HTML part is fine: it's marked as quoted-printable. The plain-text bit is explicitly 7bit, though. The mailer app should probably be setting that to 8bit (it's already declaring the character set). Or converting emdashes to something else.
Wade.
Q:Is it proper to eat cheeseburgers with your fingers?
A:No, the fingers should be eaten separately.
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Post #330,352
7/26/10 11:34:35 PM
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Hmm, interesting
I'm hand-crafting the text-only version for now. Some SPAM rules reject mail that doesn't have it. The new version of the mailer app will handle that for me. (Eventually.)
In the meantime, I'll have to look at how it's generating the header/encoding for the text part.
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Drew
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Post #330,323
7/26/10 4:55:52 PM
7/26/10 7:18:02 PM
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It probably just needs the '8bit' header.
And that would be:
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Wade.
Q:Is it proper to eat cheeseburgers with your fingers?
A:No, the fingers should be eaten separately.
Edited by static
July 26, 2010, 07:18:02 PM EDT
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