On 11/13/01 8:16 AM, "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 11/13/01 6:50 AM, "Allen Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On or near 11/13/01 5:30 AM, Adam Boettiger at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: >> >>> I replied to a message and when I queued it up to send it in ER I got a >>> popup warning that said the message could only be sent in "Unicode". >>> >>> What causes this? Is this when there is a foreign language word or message >>> that has words that are not in the char set of my version of ER? >> >> That's my understanding. However, the common European accented characters >> such as those in "r�sum�" or �ber do not cause the message for me, and using >> the "Apple" sign, as in �, does not either. In fact, I've <never> seen that >> message, now that I think of it. > > Anything that can be done with keyboard set to standard mac Roman, using > option key etc., such as �, �, etc. does not require Unicode (UTF-8) > character format. (Of course, those 'upper-ASCII' characters will be read > differently by some mail servers.) If you have a language kit (OS 9) > installed, or are availing yourself of OS Xs equivalents, and then mix > languages (some English mac-Roman mixed in with another language character > set such as Japanese, Central European, whatever), then it has to be sent in > Unicode to handle both. this can easily happen if you're responding to an > email that came with a foreign character set which you can read (even if > just in the subject or signature) and you are responding in English. The euro also requires Unicode (it wasn't around when Latin1 was invented). Dan -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To search the archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
