Re: Entourage 2004 - Missing Characters
- From: Paul Berkowitz <berkowit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 17:16:28 -0700
You seem to have other problems as well. How - and why - are you
capitalizing the first character of every new line?
Actually I've dealt with lots of large files - way over 100K. Some of my
scripts use text files in the multi-megabyte size, including MBOX files.
Customers have sometimes had to send these to me. No missing characters.
(Your first message was a bit misleading then? You're not sending plain-text
_files_ - you're sending large plain text _messages_? Pasting in text isn't
the same as sending a file.)
I just sent myself a message with 260K of text in it. As far as I can see,
it transferred perfectly. No missing characters. To make it a harder test, I
chose am MBOX file, opened it in TextEdit, saved a copy as .txt, copied the
contents into an Entourage plain text message, sent it to myself, opened the
received message, selected and copied all into TextEdit, saved as plain text
there (everything looks fine), changed the extension to .mbox, and dragged
it into Entourage where it makes a perfect flawless message folder where all
the messages I can see are perfect reproductions of the original.
Now - do your scientific documents include mathematical symbols and
such-like? Any other languages, or characters from non-Western European
languages? If so, this isn't really plain text. Depending on which
characters are included, the encoding of the mail message would be
automatically set to IS0-8859-1 or maybe even Unicode UTF-8. If the
recipient's email client can't read those well, things would be altered.
(But your own Entourage as recipient should read them OK.) You're not
somehow setting the encoding to specific Character Format, are you? If
you're setting it to, say, Western European when it isn't, trouble would
ensue.
--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
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otherwise.
> From: Paul Robinson <robinson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Organization: AT&T ASP.att.net
> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage
> Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 20:15:05 GMT
> Subject: Re: Entourage 2004 - Missing Characters
>
> As Co-editor of a scientific journal I send manuscripts to practically
> All countries in the free (and not so free) world. This is done in text-
> Only format (called crystallographic information files) so that they are
> Usable in even the most technologically deficient countries. I realize
> That I could send these files as attachments, zipped or otherwise, but
> That assumes the person on the other end can handle them in that form,
> A bad assumption to make. Thus it is necessary for the e-mail program
> To allow me to paste my text-only documents directly into the body of the
> E-mail message. Apparently there is a bug in Entourage which prevents
> This from working properly. If you would like to confirm the bug, and
> I would be most appreciative, create a 100K plain-text message and send
> It to yourself. If it comes back with lots of missing characters then
> My problem is not an isolated one and should be brought to the attention
> Of Microsoft. In the meantime I will get acquainted with the Apple
> Mail client which works flawlessly with my large files.
>
> Paul Robinson
>
>
> On 8/5/05 1:36 PM, in article BF18FFA7.AA9C2%berkowit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> "Paul Berkowitz" <berkowit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On 8/5/05 10:54 AM, in article BF191281.A06%robinson@xxxxxxxxxxx, "Paul
>> Robinson" <robinson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> I often have the need to send large (100K or greater) plain-text files.
>>> After upgrading to Entourage 2004 I find that these files arrive at
>>> Their destination with random characters missing throughout. If the
>>> File size is small enough the problem goes away. I have gone to Apple
>>> Mail because it handles these files fine. However, I prefer the extra
>>> Bells and whistles of Entourage. I am using a G4 Powerbook, 1.67MHZ and
>>> Panther 10.3.9. I have also tried this on an iMac G4 "lamp" with the
>>> Same result.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>
>> I never heard of this happening, but you could surely avoid this by sending
>> the files stuffed or zipped. Although Entourage offers the convenience of
>> Compression (Stuffit) directly from the message window (click Attachment
>> area open, click long button within, choose Compression: Macintosh), that
>> might not be too convenient if you're sending to Windows recipients who
>> usually don't bother to get Stuffit Expander (also Mac recipients in Tiger
>> might not have it). Instead, zip the files before sending. In Tiger, that
>> works perfectly (control-click the file and choose Archive). I'm not 100%
>> sure that 10.3.9's format unzips perfectly on Windows computers. Try it out.
>> If not, get Stuffit Standard (or Deluxe) with DropZip, or choose this moment
>> to upgrade to Tiger.
>
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