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. -- Domenico Bettinelli, Jr.<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]><http://www.bettnet.com/> The Bettnet blog <http://bettnet.dyndns.org/blog/weblog.php> Catholic World News <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.cwnews.com/> Managing Editor, Catholic World Report magazine -- 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/>
