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Note that [[Unicode]] supports many such complex characters, but font support issues with Unicode limit the usefulness of this possibility.

=== Drawbacks ===

* A few recipients have [[e-mail client]]s that cannot display HTML. This may be mitigated by the inclusion of an automatically generated plain text version, which may be missing important formatting information (e.g. an equation may lose a superscript and take on an entirely new meaning).

* Some senders may excessively rely upon large, colorful, or distracting fonts making all but the shortest messages more difficult to read.

* Many HTML-based GUI [[email client]]s automatically convert common plain text characters, e.g. — and ", into non-plain text equivalents. This can cause translation problems in other users' clients.

* Many HTML-based GUI [[email client]]s automatically convert common plain text characters, e.g. — and ", into non-plain text equivalents. This can cause translation problems in other users' clients.

For these reasons many [[Electronic mailing list|mailing list]]s deliberately block HTML e-mail, either stripping out the HTML part to just leave the plain text part or rejecting the entire message.