Hello, everyone.
On Friday, 01 October 2004, I wrote:
DMD> In my original message, I wrote that I could not get a DMD> Unicode, KOI-8-encoded signature text file to work with DMD> The Bat! 3.0. DMD> DMD> On Thursday, 30 September 2004, you suggest, Maksym: DMD> MK> Well, I would consider the following as a possible MK> solution. Save your signature file as non-Unicode MK> Windows Cyrillic. Use some (re-)encoding software to MK> make it KOI-8. Use %COOKIE="C:\pushkin-signature-your- MK> plain-non-unicode-koi8-r.txt" :). MK> MK> I personally would recommend Decode by Boris MK> Berdichevskiy, MK> http://www.borisba.com/~borisba/decode21.zip....
In addition, I wrote to Maksym and the other members of TBUDL that I would try using Boris Berdichevski's Decode 2.1 and report back on my results in trying to get The Bat! 3.0 successfully to use a Cyrillic signature file containing a quotation from Alexander Pushkin's famous poem, "To...", and this message is my report.
I could tell that Boris's README.txt file was encoded in some form of Cyrillic, but I could not get the Russian text to display properly. I used an evaluation copy of EmEditor Professional 4.05 (http://www.emeditor.com/) and the Russian text came out as "gibberish," no matter what form of Russian encoding I selected before opening the file. (My Russian is rudimentary and terrible, but I might have gleaned some information from the README file.)
I resolved the problem by using EmEditor Professional to save the signature file in Windows Cyrillic (1251), not as a Unicode file.
I also did some thinking overnight before attempting this fix today. I realized that I was doing something that was fundamentally wrong with my signature COOKIE, because only the first line of any signature file, even in English, would appear in The Bat! when I created a new message.
Although most of you are "Bat veterans," I will pass along
my mistake, in hopes that others who might be repeating it
will benefit from my stupidity. Apparently, the signature
file for The Bat! must be a single line of text, with the
newline character ('\n') inserted in the appropriate
locations. I was, indeed, using the newline character,
but my signature files were on multiple lines, which The
Bat! apparently does not like.In a nutshell, make sure that your signature file is a single line of text, but use the newline character if the signature contains multiple lines. (I hope this information will be of help to someone.)
I successfully sent an e-mail message with the revised signature in Cyrillic (Windows) encoding to two people using Outlook (and Windows, of course) with Russian support enabled. I want to do further testing, however.
As an additional experiment, I also forwarded this same message to the same two accounts, but I encoded my foward message as KOI8-R. Pushkin's beautiful verse was preserved intact.
I may try to create a version of the file in Unicode/KOI8-R format, just to see what happens. If the Russian appears intact when I create a new message in The Bat!, I will send the message to the e-mail account that I use with Linux. (I use KMail with Linux, and have Cyrillic support enabled.)
If I were clever, I would not have taken so long to resolve this simple issue, but obviously I lack that intellectual attribute! ;-)
I still have other concerns about The Bat!, besides the lack of Unicode support, including the lack of a user's manual and the situation with user support, so I have not decided definitely whether or not The Bat! will become my new e-mail program for Windows XP Professional, and let me abandon the security hole also known as Outlook XP/2002. (I have also heard people refer to said software as "Lookout.")
Anyway, Maxym, I thank you again for your time and your kind assistance. Incidentally, I did use Decode 2.1 to create a transliterated version of the excerpt of the Pushkin poem, although I changed some of the occurrences of the letter 'j' to the letter 'y', as in 'Lyubov'.
Thank you, again, Maksym! ('Spasibo'!)Cordially,
David -- David M. Dickerson <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>\n URL: http://ddickerson.igc.org/\n * * *\n "In a world of absurdity, we must invent\n reason; we must create beauty out of\n nothingness." - ELIE WIESEL\n
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