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  • Improves Mail's selection of character encoding for messages sent in these languages: Arabic, Bulgarian, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian.
  • Improves Mail responsiveness for accounts configured with multiple POP servers, when the servers are unavailable.
  • Addresses an issue in which an application could unexpectedly quit when printing, if /tmp was missing or unavailable.
  • Addresses an issue in which a damaged GIF file, such as a Web site graphic, could cause an application to unexpectedly quit.
  • Addresses an issue in which certain PICT graphics could not be displayed.
  • Addresses an issue in which the date may unexpectedly be set to 1969 or 1970 during startup.
  • Addresses an issue when using the Hanin input method for Traditional Chinese in which Carbon applications could unexpectedly quit if a modifier key (such as Control) was pressed when no text insertion point was available.
  • Addresses an issue in which Classic fails to start ("Error 1016") when applications available to a non-Admin user are restricted.
  • Addresses an issue in which the Classic environment could become unresponsive after placing a Classic application's save confirmation dialog box in the background.
  • Addresses an issue in which using the Command-Option-Shift-Q key command would immediately quit the Classic environment.
  • Improves the reliability of AppleEvents traffic (inter-application communication) between software running in the Classic environment and native Mac OS X; addresses an issue in which a user might not be able to logout after using a Mac OS 9 version of America Online (AOL).
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