Thu, 29 Jul 2004 21:16:31 -0400 A-NO-NE Music wrote: >Brian Jacobs / 04.7.29 / 5:54PM wrote: > >>You mean by doing a Reply to Sender. > >He meant Mail menu -> Text Encoding. In the menu bar none of the drop down menus are titled Text Encoding. Not in the Preferences either. What am I missing here? >>which are probably the most popular, and you are sent messages in a different >>character set is there anything you can do about it if the characters >>remain as >>gobbledy gook (unreadable) even after your best efforts at conversion. > >Finding problem is not easy. You must look at the source. Most of the >times, the escape sequence is dropped or damaged. If the sender is using >the shift bit (I think Big5 uses shift bit), and the mail server's >threshold is set to 7-bit then there will be no way of reconstructing the >message. DOA. Lotus Note used to do this. Unless you pay for I18N >version, they will drop the shift bit. Ack! So the only solution is, as >you said, have sender make a text attachment. Thanks for the explanation. I'm not that technically minded but willing to learn. This gives some idea of the problems and how to solve them. I reckoned the problems with Japanese, and I'm sure likely to repeated with other non latin languages, was the encodings used on their email clients by senders. Or possibly web browsers when used for sending mail but I've no evidence. The majority of users probably have little idea of encodings, preferences and so on which makes it difficult to explain how they can correct problems. With help from the Full Header in PM I should be able to locate the main cause and perpetrators of these problems. Regards, Brian Jacobs
