My Reply follows quote. On 08/11/2002 06:34 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >Hello, >I am having trouble with Emailer recognizing foreign text characters in >my AOL mail. The AOL mail message looks fine (if I check it via the web), >but once Emailer downloads it and displays it, foreign text characters >are all out of whack. > >Please let me know if this topic has been covered, and where to locate >that archive. > >Regards, >Jay Ruuska ------------- Probably covered in past years, but archives? Think they may have gone the way of the Dodo bird.
The problem you are seeing is most likely due to Emailer's innate nature of using ASCII test. The character set used to create "foreign test characters" in email are not included in the parachoial American text set of ASCII. Thus, when those characters are typed into an email program they must be translated by the email program (including AOL) for transmission across the Internet. In this translation process, various limitations are encountered (sort of like me trying to translate English to German with my "Gasthous Deutche") and what you end up with is often confusing at best. There is no guaranteed way to avoid this, short of writing the "foreign" text in a word processing program, attaching the document to an email, and having the recipient open the document in the same word processing program (after ensuring that the recipient has the same font on their computer as the writer). It is a bit of a kludge at best. Ken Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
