>Well, the Monaco font (used by Emailer) contains many characters. I >suppose other mail clients use *exactly* the same characters as are >contained in the Monaco font on the mac.
Sorry, once again, I over summerized the issue. The encoding used in an email follows a standard, and any mail client that can handle that standard should translate the encoded characters to the correct characters in the font being used. This still depends on the available font being one that has the special characters that are needed. If they aren't there, then you could end up with odd results. Monoco happens to be one that has lots and lots of standard european symbols. I believe Courier is another like that. So really, its two issues. 1: there must be a font that the email client can use that contains the special characters that you want, and 2: the email clients on both ends must support a text encoding standard that allows for those fonts. I am sure both items exist to handle arabic characters, as well as probably any other common character set in the world. However, I'd also lay bets that Emailer can't handle it. I say that because to the best of my knowledge there is no way to tell Emailer what kind of text encoding to use. I know many newer email clients either offer a large list of supported encoding types, or rely on the OS to handle it. In either case, many newer clients can handle many different types of encoding. Mail.app may very well handle it because OS X should be able to handle it. The trick will be figuring out how to set the encoding type to match the font being used, so that people on the other end, if they are also setup correctly, can see the text as you intended. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
