[B-Greek] Unicode

Bert de Haan b_dehaan at sympatico.ca
Thu Aug 16 21:41:08 EDT 2007




 >From: George F Somsel <gfsomsel at yahoo.com>
 >
>Does your e-mail provider make you use their web-mail system or are you 
>using a separate browser?  If so, which one?  It may be your settings.  
>Check to see what your default font happens to be.  If you are using XP 
>then you should have the current version of the Tahoma font which is 
>unicode aware.  You could try changing your default font to that.
>
>george
>gfsomsel


>From: harley486 at insightbb.com
 >
>Bert,
>
>	That tells me your web browser
>supports the Unicode characters but not your email client.  What computer
>program do you use to read your email?  Because it might be able to be set
>up to render the Unicode properly too.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Pia Mikeal


(BdH)  I do use my providers e-mail system and it serves me well except for 
this font problem. I use XP but I have no idea how to change the default 
font.


 >From: Jonathan Robie <jwrobie at mindspring.com>
 >Hi Bert,
>
>Your headers indicate that you are using Hotmail, is this true?

(BdH) Yes it is.
>
>I don't use Hotmail, but Googling around a bit, it looks like Hotmail
>actually reads the messages correctly, but then displays using the wrong
>encoding. You should be able to see the Unicode properly if you click on
>your web browser's View menu, then on Encoding, and then select "Unicode
>(UTF-8)".
>Incidentally, Gmail, another free web-based email system, displays
>Unicode flawlessly.
>
>Hope this helps!
>
>Jonathan
>
(BdH) I have tried to change the encoding but it always goes back.
I have thought about using the e-mail system of Firefox but I could look 
into Gmail.
Sorry for imposing on you all to help me with a technical problem rather 
than a Greek problem.
Thank you.
Bert de Haan.





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