Re: Language Problem?

[Eric Hildum]

At a guess, the message is encoded as utf-8, which means unicode. However, the font you are using to display the message is not a complete unicode font (i.e. does not contain a character glyph for every possible unicode character) so it is possible that some portions of the message are not displayable. Most of the time, the fonts used on English language versions of the operating system contain glyphs only for the Latin-1 character set. In your case, the message only contained characters that your selected font could display, so you were safe. As an example, you might have trouble with the following for most default installations: これは日本語です。This is a mix of hiragana and kanji. If you install the Japanese language kit, you will be able to see, and print, the message correctly (and if you can read Japanese, you could read it!). Eric Hildum -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To search the archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>