Hello Mary, On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 07:24:25 -0600 GMT (01/11/02, 20:24 +0700 GMT), Mary Bull wrote:
> My sister sent me a FWD re a genealogy file. Since I thought it was an > attachment, I enabled Rich Text/html in the viewer. Opened the message > and it came up as a page full of little squares. Rich text and HTML are two different things. Anyway, over here I get squares only if my computer does not have the fonts associated with the character codes. This in turn has to do with the character coding chosen. As a matter of fact, I have so far only seen this in Word documents, not in emails. > I decided to reply to her and ask her to re-send, so I could re-open > it in much-maligned OE. In Reply (Edit Message) all the squares became (legible) This is weird. Because TB uses the same character code for replies that was assigned to the original message. > Question: Is this normal tbudl behavior? I have never experienced this, but that doesn't mean that we won;t solve the mystery. To the contrary. -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. "Sorry, Officer, I didn't realize my radar detector wasn't plugged in." Message reply created with The Bat! 1.62/Beta7 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using an AMD Athlon K7 1.2GHz, 128MB RAM ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
