On 11/18/2002 9:51, mikael bystr�m wrote: >I don't think it's Emailer. I just sent a message with umlauts and a >bunch of other chars to a PC and back and they came back as they were >sent.: �, �, �, �, �, �, @' �' $' f' �' |' [' ], �, �, �) <--How these >look to you? > > >For some reason messages to certain listservs are mangled and others are >not. I always assumed they were supposed to convert to MIME compatible >chars and send out in a format all MIME compatible clients could read, >but it seems some have problems with this. Anyone, have a clue? >
At one time, I discovered that in certain mailing lists, it depended on the code page set in Outlook Explorer (by PC users). Here is a copy of what I wrote to one of my Spanish lists, which caused quite a sensation after 2 years of dealing with mangled accents: To all of you who regale me with subject headers of the likes of: =?Windows-1252?B?RWwgY2Hx824uLi4=?= (assuming that shows in all its glory) and text like: Ya est�s al pie del ca��n? I learned something fascinating yesterday as to the possible cause, and am hoping some of you may be willing to try an experiment that may eliminate the bad accents for those of us receiving them. As usual, Microsoft appears to be the culprit, changing the default code page they now use in Outlook for "quoted printable text" to charset="Windows-1252" from the previous standard which was charset="iso-8859-1". Some e-mail programs, including my own, do not recognize charset="Windows-1252" but they do recognize charset="iso-8859-1" (I believe this is the one known as Latin-1) Apparently, you can change this in Outlook (or OE) to make your messages readable by the likes of us, as follows (the poster was French, so keep that in mind if names are not exact): Go to: (in French) "> Outils > Options > Envoyer > Param�tres internationaux" In English, hopefully: (tools: Options: Sending: International parameters). There, among all possible languages (english, greek, chinese, ...), "Western European (ISO)" can be found and selected (as opposed to "Western European (Windows)"). Do so. And bless your PC hearts. Alicia Alicia Gordon Gordon Word Artists French and Spanish Translation ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
