On 2011-07-22 14:10 , John Sessoms wrote:
From: steve harley
On 2011-07-22 10:46 , John Sessoms wrote:
> I've noticed that some characters in some names are represented as '?' when I
> receive list emails. I've tried changing my options to display international
> characters, but it's not working.
>
> Anyone have hints how I might do this?
the answer depends on your email client (or browser, for webmail), your OS and
what fonts you have installed ...
Email client is Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.11 on Windoze XP.
i use the same Tbird on Mac OS X 10.5.8
Tools>Options>Display: Default font is Arial
Advanced options: Fonts for: Western
Proportional: Sans Serif
Serif: Times New Roman
Sans-serif: Arial
Monospace: Courier New
mine:
Proportional: Sans Serif
Serif: Myriad Pro
Sans-serif: Bitstream Vera Sans
Monospace: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono
on Mac OS X if a font doesn't contain a glyph, the system searches your other
fonts for the glyph; i thought Windows had something similar, but i'm not sure
if it is so in XP
Font Control: Allow messages to use other fonts & Use fixed width font for
plain text messages both checked.
same here
Character Encodings:
Outgoing Mail: Western (ISO-8859-1)
Incoming Mail: Unicode (UTF-16)
I already tried UTF-8, but I still get the '?' in place of European characters,
so I thought I'd try UTF-16 to get the larger character set. It's still giving
me the '?'.
i thought i had set outgoing to utf-8 but i now see ISO-8859-1 -- maybe a crash
or update changed my setting; i have ignored the incoming setting, thinking it
to only apply when no encoding is specified (and in such cases UTF-16 is
unlikely to work well)
also note the menu: View > Character Encoding, particularly whether Auto-detect
is on; i believe you can change these on the fly while viewing a message
What I'm NOT seeing are characters like the slashed capital 'O' in Scandinavian
names
i do see the correct character in Tim's emails in his From header; but header
encoding is handled differently from the message body -- in this case the
literal text of the From header contains an escape indicating it is UTF-8
encoded, even though his message body is encoded as us-ascii
& whatever character was in the middle of the discussion of variants of
McAllister that came out "M??r".
that latter was a pair of Unicode characters, a superscript c merged with
"almost equals", but glyphs for these characters are missing from many fonts,
and it implies a system that can handle Unicode combining characters; i have no
idea if that works on XP
None of this is any world shaking problem, but I would like to fix it. It's
actually the little things that irritate me the most.
i suspect it's down to the font choice in Tbird and/or XP
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