Hi all.

 

Here’s what Outlook help says about encoding messages. My reading of it is that when you send a message the required encoding ‘key’ is embedded in the message. If the receiver has Outlook, when they receive the message their copy of Outlook should identify the encoding key embedded in the message and use that key to display the message. I guess, if you don’t use Outlook, how the message appears will depend on whether your mail reader interprets the encoding key or not.

 

Kveðja

Alan

 

About reading and sending messages in other languages

By default, Microsoft Office XP includes support for a number of languages. This means that when you're in Microsoft Outlook, you can read or send messages in these languages. When you receive a message, Outlook knows which character set to use to display the message because the recipient's e-mail program marked it with a language encoding. Likewise, when you create, forward, or reply to a message, Outlook will encode the message.

 

How Outlook encodes messages depends on which version of Microsoft Internet Explorer you're using. With Internet Explorer 5.5, Outlook evaluates the text in the message, automatically selects the encoding that can display all characters in the message, and then marks the message with that information. However, for some languages, more than one encoding can display its character set. In this case, Outlook uses the preferred encoding that's specified for your computer. With versions of Internet Explorer earlier than 5.5, or with other browsers, Outlook automatically marks the message with the preferred encoding that's specified for your computer instead of selecting the encoding based on the characters in the message.

 

Sometimes the preferred encoding won't work for a specific character set. In this case, you need to change the encoding for that specific message. For example, if your preferred setting is Western European and you want to send Greek text, you need to select Greek (Windows ) to manually apply the encoding to the message.

Send or display messages in other languages

Do one of the following to change the encoding (character set) of messages:

Change the encoding for a specific message you're sending

If you're using Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5, Microsoft Outlook automatically selects the encoding for messages you're sending. If you turned off the setting or want to override it, or if you're using a previous version of Internet Explorer, you can change the encoding yourself.

• In the message you want to send, on the Format menu, point to Encoding, and then click the one you want to use.

Change the preferred encoding for all messages you send

1. On the Tools menu, click Options.
2. Click the Mail Format tab, and then click International Options.
3. In the Preferred encoding for outgoing messages list, select the one you want.

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: norse_course@yahoogroups.com [mailto:norse_course@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of llama_nom
Sent: Sunday, 21 May 2006 12:00 PM
To: norse_course@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [norse_course] Encoding bizarrerie

 

 

Scott, if that last message of mine comes out in garbled characters,

and if you're using Windows, just go to the VIEW menu > ENCODING and

chose Western European (Windows).

 

Uuoden, your "test" message came out fine and legible for me, as I

tend to have the Western Eupopean (Windows) encoding by default.  When

I read Alan's posts I just switch to Unicode (UTF-8).

 

Llama Nom

 

 

 

 

 

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