Hello, again, everyone.
On Thursday, 23 September 2004, I sent a query to this list about a problem that I am having in evaluating The Bat 3.0 as a replacement for Outlook XP/2002 (under Windows XP Professional, SP 1).
I believe that my problem stems from the fact that The Bat does not yet offer Unicode support, but I could be wrong. I could easily be doing something wrong, or just plain stupid. ;-)
Because I have Russian-speaking friends in Ukraine and Russian (including my fiancee in Odessa, Ukraine), I send many e-mail messages that contain Cyrillic text, which is easy to do with Thunderbird, because I can use UTF-8 encoding (but The Bat is much more powerful). I have absolutely no problems with Russian/English messages in Outlook, but I want a more secure, and powerful, e-mail client.
My workaround for the text of my messages is to use a default character set of KOI8-R, but, for some reason, my signature file, which contains an excerpt of a Pushkin poem in Russian, will NOT import into my TB messages:
DMD> I am using the following "cookie" setup in my DMD> preferences for the account I am using for testing, DMD> inserting a new line character (\n) at the end of DMD> each line, as instructed by the on-line help, DMD> %COOKIE="C:\pushkin-signature-unicode-koi8-r.txt".
I used the evaluation version of the Unicode text editor EmEditor to create the signature file. Because I am only able to use my signature file successfully in Outlook, I do not know if the problem lies with my Russian/English text file or with TB itself. (I have the same problem, by the way, with Thunderbird, which is Unicode-compliant!)
I apologize for mentioning this problem a second time, but I received no response to my query, nor has RITLabs support offered any suggestions.
My decision on whether to use TB hinges, in part, on resolving this problem -- and I would appreciate any suggestions, or even a response.
Thank you very much, in advance!
Cordially,
David
P.S. -- I apologize if rementioning a topic is in violation of TBUDL protocol, but we are all aware of the support situation with TB, and the lack of a manual in printed or PDF format. (At the risk of sounding crass, I would LOVE to be able to "RTFM"!) -- David M. Dickerson <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://ddickerson.igc.org/ * * * "In a world of absurdity, we must invent reason; we must create beauty out of nothingness." - ELIE WIESEL
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