unicode in group messages

Dear Eisel and others,

> I can read Unicode characters in many languages (at a public windows
> terminal, no special software installed), receiving messages back from
> Google's Gmail.  However, as you say, Yahoogroups itself cannot
> display these letters properly.

After some experimenting with the settings in my IE browser I was finally
able to get the unicode characters to display correctly in the group
messages archived on the Yahoogroups website. So the problem was not with
the website but with the browser settings.

What I did was to set the encoding in the view menu to unicode (UTF-8) and
in internet options in the tools menu, I needed to select a unicode font in
"Fonts" and to check a box in "Accessibility" to override all other
font-styles specified by webpages. The only problem remaining for me is that
I'm not able to input the special Pali characters directly into an email
from the keyboard in Windows ME but I can easily do so on my newer Windows
XP computer.

So it is possible to use unicode characters in our group messages but at the
risk of some of us not being able to read them. It doesn't seem right
though, at this stage of the game, that unicode should be permanently banned
from our group messages. I would suggest using them sparingly for a start to
allow for a gradual transition to its greater use in the future.

Best wishes,
Jim




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