Hello Costas, On Thursday, August 18, 2005, at 19:05 Lithuanian Time, you wrote:
CP> I don't know if I can express it correctly, but what I have now in my CP> email folders is one email from Thomas CP> mid:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: It shows in the headers part CP> of the Message Preview window the Subject line with the Greek word CP> "Λύθηκε" that I wrote, but in non Greek characters. CP> I also have message mid:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from CP> Mary where the above Greek word in the Subject line appears correctly CP> in Greek! CP> Do you see my point? I'm sure that neither Thomas nor Mary edited the CP> Subject line. You mustt have both replied to a message. Yet, the Greek CP> word in the Subject line in one case changed from Greek to gibberish CP> and in other it remained in Greek. I'll try to explain. First of all you probably already know that there's no such thing as a character in data which is stored in computer. Only numeric bytes are stored. Character sets are used to map those numeric values to according characters. The same numeric value can be mapped to one character in one charset and to another character in another charset. Thomas replied using ISO-8859-1 charset in the subject and those values which are mapped to Greek letters using Greek ISO charset were mapped to some characters of ISO-8859-1 (Western ISO) characters. So you got some Western European characters instead of Greek. If you would save Thomas' message as *.eml message, then with a plain text editor edit it and change ISO-8859-1 to ISO-8859-7 and then open that edited message in The Bat! you'll get correct Greek characters. Mary replied using Greek ISO and all your characters are shown correctly. In my reply you will be able to see just question marks instead of Greek characters because here bug of The Bat! comes into play — characters in message headers which are not in the default windows charset are converted into question marks. -- Edvinas ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.51.10 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
