Ghost: Email newsletter rendering issues in Microsoft Outlook (Windows)

[jaydenroberts]

Issue Summary

Problem 1

Native email newsletters are not wrapping text or images when viewing within Outlook for Microsoft Windows, content continues outside of the viewing pane, even when viewing the individual message in a separate window.

In comparison to Outlook for Mac

Problem 2

Outlook renders apostrophes as '

To Reproduce

View in Outlook for Windows

Technical details:

• Ghost Version: 3.3.0
• Browser/OS: Microsoft Outlook (Office 365 ProPlus) v1902 Build 11328.20492
  Windows 10 Pro v1903 build 18362.592

[n1n10]

Apparently this is also a problem for som users using Outlook on Mac. See the attached image where the bookmark in Outlook is way off, but it looks right in Apple Mail

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[drorpoleg]

Hi,
My readers are reporting the same issue. In addition, Outlook also renders apostrophes as ' for some reason.

[krrisis]

+1

[ErisDS]

Note: I believe the apostrophe bug may be to do with some encoding issues that I've been talking to mailgun about

[matthanley]

There's a reference here that mentions lack of support for ' in Outlook, and to switch to '

if you have to support legacy browsers or writing HTML emails for Outlook then you're best sticking to '

[greenhamsam]

Hiya! I just wanted to hop in here and say that the ' issue was reported by one of my readers, too. I'd love to see this fixed, please. Thanks team :)

[matthanley]

Hey @greenhamsam! The ' issue should be fixed in the next release 👍

[daniellockyer]

@greenhamsam Hey! :wave: We just released 3.29.2 with the fix for the ' issue, so please update using Ghost-CLI :slightly_smiling_face: