Actually, it does, a little bit. It tells me you are sending in Western European. Most messages, like this one you sent, have this header: Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
For some reason, it had been switched (knowingly or unknowingly because of a special character) to ISO-8859-1, which the replier then sent back to in the same format. I suggest one of you start a new thread using Unicode (Format -> Character Set -> Unicode (UTF-8)), and continue it that way. You shouldn't have any other problems with character sets. On 1/22/03 8:18 PM, "Beth Rosengard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Mickey, > > Here's mine: > > Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" > > Here's his: > > Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" > > Doesn't tell you much, does it? > > Beth > > On 1/21/03 6:51 PM, "Mickey Stevens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi Beth, >> >> Please post the "Content-Type" header of each message onto this group. >> Mention which header is from you and which one if from the Briton. I might >> be able to make some suggestions if I can see that information. >> >> On 1/19/03 6:21 PM, "Beth Rosengard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Someone I correspond with sends me email from his Mac (OS 9, Entourage 2001) >>> to my Mac (also OS 9, Entourage 2001). He's sending in Arial and I'm >>> receiving in Arial. Neither of us acquired our Arial from any unusual >>> source. Both of us normally have Character Set on Automatic. >>> >>> Here's what happens: Characters like the ellipses in his messages show up >>> as sigmas on my Mac. Now, if I change my Character Set to Western European >>> (Windows), the sigmas turn into ellipses, as you would expect. But why is >>> this happening in the first place? >>> >>> The only difference I can find is that he has a UK version of Office and >>> mine is US. Would a UK version of MacOffice install fonts with different >>> character sets? If so, why don't I see the substituted characters in email >>> from other Brits sending from Macs? If not, what might explain this? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Beth >>> > -- Mickey Stevens (Microsoft MVP for Office:mac) PowerPoint FAQ featuring PowerPoint:mac: <http://www.pptfaq.com/> The Entourage Help Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
