A Bat-fellow, Graham,
wrote on Friday, September 22, 2000 at 19:32:57 (GMT +0100),
which was 20:32 in Bratislava --
G> Allie, have you seen Becky 2?
Graham, you keep praising and recommending Becky 2, suggesting it is a
serious alternative to The Bat!. Okay, here comes the test: every day
I send and receive messages in 5 languages and 6 encodings. Is it
possible to switch, in Becky 2, as effortlessly between these
encodings as it is in The Bat?
(In fact, in The Bat! you don't need to switch at all because it
automatically switches to the correct encoding, no matter if you
happen to be reading or editing.)
Say yes, and I'm dowloading Becky 2 right away, in order to give it a
try. My long experience with Western mail clients has been, though,
that they tend to neglect Eastern European languages and all the
encodings that are needed to display them correctly. (The only
exception being Outlook Express, which however, unlike The Bat!, isn't
fully automated in terms of its multi-lingual capabilities.)
The 6 encodings I routinely use every day are
us-ascii (American plaintext)
ISO 8859-1 (Western European languages)
ISO 8859-2 (Eastern European languages, the more popular code)
Windows 1250 (Eastern European languages, less widely used code)
KOI8-R (Russian encoding, widely spread)
Windows 1251 (Russian encoding, less widely spread)
Can Becky 2 handle them (and others) and effortlessly shift between
them?
Please note that even such classic and undoubtedly fabulous products
as your own British TextPad or the South Korean EditPlus are ignorant
in terms of Eastern European users and make it impossible for us to
employ those encodings in TextPad or EditPlus that we need most of
all: ISO 8859-2 and KOI8-R. Whenever I finish editing texts in
EditPlus or TextPad I need to transfer them to DreamWeaver which,
among other things, can act as a faultless, clean re-coder.
--
Yours,
Alex. of Slovakia
[flying with The Bat! 1.46 Beta/6
under Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A
amd k6-2 500 mhz processor with 64 mb ram]
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