Hello TBUDL, while I use Chinese Windows, most of my communication is in either English or German. Therefore, my standard character set is ISO-9958-1 (I tweaked a bit in the registry for that). So please don't get confused, the below has nothing to do with DBCS and should be valid under English Windows as well.
Yesterday I received a message in Thai. The subject line showed up quite perfectly, but the body of the message consisted of all kinds of weird characters. I checked, but the character set in that message was correctly set to Thai. I had to go to Options / Editor Prefs / Display / Font: change, and change the font manually to a Thai font in order to be able to read the message. Of course, after reading it, I had to switch the font back to Courier New. Is there a way to tell TB which font should be associated with a character set, so that an automatic switching takes place? Why is the character set switched correctly in the subject line but not in the body? How do other people on this list who read/write in English *and* a local language with non-Latin characters (like cyrillic or Greek) handle this? Do you use just one font, one that has both Latin and local characters, or is there an easy way to switch? (I don't like the looks of the English letters in the Thai font I use, so I don't want to use that font as standard for all mails.) -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. Man kann es neun Wochen ohne Essen aushalten, aber dann ist man natuerlich tot... 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
