R�ponse suit --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] a �crit de l'adresse <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> le 8/11/02 16:46:
>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. > >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). Hmmm. Sorry for repyling so late to this one, and with incomplete replies at best. Foreing characters (accented characters) are encoded as written on the following headers: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Emailer automatically uses the ISO charset 8859-1 which is also called ISO-Occidental in all good old windoze machines whenever it sees an accented character. This message, containing an �, is encoded that way. FYI You have the same need for encoding in the headers of a webpage to permit the browser to understand what it reads (see <http://validator.w3.org/>). Emailer also uses quoted-printable where � is =E9. Unfortunately, not everybody agrees to the iso-8859-1 charset, including some experts on this list a long time ago. Microsoft, for one (the majority opponent) has decided that Windows-1251 was a better charset, and now use it standard on its mail clients (OE 6), except on Entourage for the mac where they still use iso-8859-1 as the defauld encoding system. Emailer does not decode this windows non-ISO encoding. There are other deviants than the Microsoft windows-1251 charset. Some mail systems (probably unix-based) use an 8-bit encoding which does not appear to be recognizable by Emailer. Hope that helps. -- Jean-Pierre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
