[B-Greek] I have a simple issue...

Jonathan Robie jwrobie at mindspring.com
Fri Jan 18 11:20:15 EST 2008


Carl Conrad wrote:
> (2) In order to view Unicode Greek (or other non-Roman font) properly  
> in e-mail, you must be (a) running an operating system that supports  
> Unicode (I think that most Windows, Macintosh, and Linux systems do so  
> now), and (b) have your system and/or e-mail program configured  
> properly to display the "text encoding"
> Unicode (UTF-8). How this is done may vary from one e-mail program to  
> another, but I think it's usually to be found in the preferences file  
> and it probably also can be found under a "View" menu.
>   

Kurt - the headers say you are using "Windows Mailer" - is that Outlook, 
or is this some new Vista thing? If you identify your mailer, perhaps 
someone here knows how to set it up.

I'm afraid I don't use Windows these days, and I always used Thunderbird 
on Windows, so I'm not the guy who will know this for your program.

> (3) It's my impression that it is harder to configure web-mail  
> programs to compose and display messages in Unicode than it is to  
> configure mail applications that compose and read e-mail offline, but  
> I don't know whether that's really the case.
>   
I think Gmail handles this very cleanly. Hotmail at least used to be a 
real problem. I haven't tried any others.

Jonathan



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