Hi, I am experiencing problems when sending email using Mozilla 0.99. When sending out out job cover letters to potential employers, I've noticed that it will always give me a "contains unreadable characters" warning message. Until MOzilla 0.99, I used to ignore the messages and just send the email. And everything seemed to look fine. The received messages looked perfectly normal.
Ever since I installed .99 I notice that not only will this error message pop up, but in fact when I view the sent email using Mozilla, a ? will replace characters like quotation marks and other things. Unfortunately this happened on about 10 cover letters I sent to employers today (what a way to leave a good first impression!) What I do is copy and paste things into the Mozilla email composer. First, I cut and paste a cover letter from a MS Word document. Second, I cut and paste a hyperlinked passage from one of my web pages. These are what gives me problems. Looking around in character coding I discovered a few things. First, under preferences, I have my coding for viewing messages as iso 8859-1. That is also the coding for composing messages. I have NOT checked "use quoted printable" or "apply default to all messages (ignore character coding specified by MIME header). When I change the coding to unicode utf-8, the warning box disappears when i sent messages. I can also view utf-8 messages normally in mozilla as well as outlook. But I can't view it in yahoo. The apostrophes don't work. And yahoo mail says: "Certain messages encoded with character sets other than US-ASCII don't display correctly. Some characters which aren't used in English will appear correctly because they are either part of the character set or are in a format called "quoted printable." I never expected character coding to be such a big problem with mozilla. Hey, it's only English. Why is this so hard? What is the best setting for encoding? UTF 8? Robert Nagle, Idiotprogrammer, Austin, Texas http://geocities.com/idiotprogrammer/weblogpointer.html
