Thanks Paul and Diane for confirming it's not just me. I think this script
will be a good workaround, Paul, thanks.


On 5/31/04 4:36 PM, "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 5/31/04 12:45 PM, "Domenico Bettinelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> When I go to set a rule to apply a different character set to messages from
>> a particular sender, I only get three options and they're all Asian
>> ideographs. Is this a change from previous versions or do I have a problem
>> with my install?
>> 
>> With some senders, I need to change their default character set to Western
>> European (Windows) to make them legible.
> 
> This seems to be a bug. I see the same thing. And those single Asian
> characters are NOT the names of character sets. It's a bug.
> 
> You can do what you want by script. Set the same rule with same criteria to
> run this script:
> 
> tell app "Microsoft Entourage"
>     set theMsg to item 1 of (get current messages)
>     set character set of theMsg to "windows-1252" -- or "ISO-8859-1"
> end tell
> 
> 
> (I'm not an expert, but I think the "ISO-8859-1" only works with quoted
> printable encoding such as is used usually with HTML. If there's any problem
> with the above, try:
> 
> tell app "Microsoft Entourage"
>     set theMsg to item 1 of (get current messages)
>     if has html of theMsg then
>         set character set of theMsg to "ISO-8859-1"
>     else
>         set character set of theMsg to "windows-1252"
>     end if
> end tell
> 
> 
> See if that works.


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