Solved! I put a short screen cast online here
http://www.spinsister.nl/zandbak/filmpjes/greek.htm to illustrate.
The stupid thing is, I don't know what finally did it since I changed so much
yesterday. I did not change the system language, but added Greek to my region
and keyboard settings in
I can use Greek characters in the message body, but when I paste for instance
Ξηροστερνι Βαμος in my address book, the characters turn into questionmarks the
moment I hit OK to save the address. Directly after pasting they show up all
right.
Is there some setting I should change
Hello A.Translator
Saturday, April 25, 2009, 5:07:59 PM, you wrote:
AT I can use Greek characters in the message body, but when I paste for
instance
AT Ξηροστερνι Βαμος in my address book, the characters turn into questionmarks
the
AT moment I hit OK to save the address. Directly after
tracer plaatste dit op zijn scherm :
I would check the fonts...
I have and all Greek fonts are checked. As I said: it does work in the message
body, just not in the address book.
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Regards,
Adriana.
[ put out the rubbish if you need to reach me by e-mail ]
www.spinsister.nl
Hello tracer,
Saturday, April 25, 2009, 5:10:54 PM, you wrote (possibly edited):
Hello A.Translator
Saturday, April 25, 2009, 5:07:59 PM, you wrote:
AT I can use Greek characters in the message body, but when I paste for
instance
AT Ξηροστερνι Βαμος in my address book, the characters turn
On Saturday, April 25, 2009, 12:07:59, A.Translator wrote:
Is there some setting I should change for the address book?
I guess it's a limitation of the address book format - looking at the
file, it contains the names in ANSI encoding, so anything outside of
the system codepage will be lost.
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Costas Papadopoulos stelde dit idée voor :
I don't know if it's relevant to the problem, but I have both Greek
ISO 8859-7 and Greek (Windows) windows-1252 enabled in Character sets,
and I have no problem in copy-pasting Greek characters in the address
book.
Very interesting, Costas. I
Costas Papadopoulos heeft ons zojuist aangekondigd :
don't know if it's relevant to the problem, but I have both Greek
ISO 8859-7 and Greek (Windows) windows-1252 enabled in Character sets,
I just noticed a tiny difference: mine says Greek windows-125*3*
--
Regards,
Adriana.
[ put out the
Hi A.Translator,
on Saturday, April 25, 2009, at 12:07:59[GMT +0200](which was 12:07
where I live) you wrote among others:
I can use Greek characters in the message body, but when I paste for instance
Ξηροστερνι Βαμος in my address book, the characters turn into questionmarks
the
moment I
-pasting Greek characters in the address
book.
AT Very interesting, Costas. I looked again and I do have both those checked
in
AT the font list. But if it works for you, it should work for me.
AT Or is the address book font ruled by some other windows settings outside of
AT TB!'s font list?
AT Do
Hello Costas Papadopoulos
Saturday, April 25, 2009, 9:26:11 PM, you wrote:
CP Hello tracer,
CP Saturday, April 25, 2009, 5:10:54 PM, you wrote (possibly edited):
Hello A.Translator
Saturday, April 25, 2009, 5:07:59 PM, you wrote:
AT I can use Greek characters in the message body, but when I
Hello A.Translator,
Saturday, April 25, 2009, 6:03:26 PM, you wrote (possibly edited):
Costas Papadopoulos heeft ons zojuist aangekondigd :
don't know if it's relevant to the problem, but I have both Greek
ISO 8859-7 and Greek (Windows) windows-1252 enabled in Character sets,
I just
tracer heeft uiteengezet op 25-4-2009 :
I think he has the default language to Greek You have it probably set
to
Dutch or English. You may have the same problem with other fonts unless
the
system in ASCII is set to it...
I thought it might be something like that, since Costas
Hello,
Saturday, April 25, 2009, 6:45:35 PM, you wrote (possibly edited):
AT Do you have Greek as default language in your Windows configuration,
perhaps?
AT If you use Windwos at all.
I think he has the default language to Greek You have it probably set
to
Dutch or English. You
tracer heeft ons zojuist aangekondigd :
Costas system maybe enabling those 2 fonts will solve the problem...
No, I have and had those to character sets (not fonts) checked.
Plus maybe adding Greek also via the control panel!
No, tried that as well. It must have to do with a deeper
Costas Papadopoulos stelde de volgende uitleg voor :
for non Unicode programs is Greek.
In Windows?
--
Regards,
Adriana.
[ put out the rubbish if you need to reach me by e-mail ]
www.spinsister.nl
Current version is 4.1.11 | 'Using TBUDL'
Hello A.Translator
Saturday, April 25, 2009, 11:12:50 PM, you wrote:
AT tracer heeft uiteengezet op 25-4-2009 :
I think he has the default language to Greek You have it probably
set
to
Dutch or English. You may have the same problem with other fonts unless
the
system in
Hello A.Translator,
Saturday, April 25, 2009, 7:15:07 PM, you wrote (possibly edited):
It must have to do with a deeper settinfgs within
Windows, but since I only want to experiment and won't use a lot of Greek in
my
addresses, I don't want to mess with the system language.
During the
Saturday, April 25, 2009, 11:21:59 PM, you wrote:
t Hello Costas Papadopoulos
t Saturday, April 25, 2009, 10:51:43 PM, you wrote:
CP Hello,
CP Saturday, April 25, 2009, 6:45:35 PM, you wrote (possibly edited):
AT Do you have Greek as default language in your Windows configuration,
perhaps?
Hello A.Translator
Saturday, April 25, 2009, 11:15:26 PM, you wrote:
AT Costas Papadopoulos stelde de volgende uitleg voor :
for non Unicode programs is Greek.
AT In Windows?
In control panel and that is likely the only way to do it Unless you want to use
a Greek email program. I
Dear Costas,
--- Costas Papadopoulos / Samstag 25.04.2009, 18:33:13
Greek characters
It must have to do with a deeper settinfgs within Windows, but
since I only want to experiment and won't use a lot of Greek in my
addresses, I don't want to mess with the system language.
During
Hello Eddie,
Saturday, April 25, 2009, 9:26:08 PM, you wrote (possibly edited):
Dear Costas,
What OS are you using? A.Translator is using Vista. It may help in problem
solving. Just a thought.
I'm using Windows XP SP3.
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Kind regards,
Costas
of that codepage (eg.
right now TB can't use Greek characters in address book - when you run
it in Greek locale, you won't be able to use characters from Western
codepage [or whatever you're using now]).
[1]
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=enfamilyid=8C4E8E0D-45D1-4D9B-B7C0
on the system.
I use XP myself with SATA and a 2 core processor (pentium)
EC Dear Costas,
EC --- Costas Papadopoulos / Samstag 25.04.2009, 18:33:13
EC Greek characters
It must have to do with a deeper settinfgs within Windows, but
since I only want to experiment and won't use a lot
Hello A.Translator,
Saturday, April 25, 2009, 6:00:59 PM, you wrote (possibly edited):
Very interesting, Costas. I looked again and I do have both those checked in
the font list. But if it works for you, it should work for me.
Or is the address book font ruled by some other windows settings
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