Re: Test

On Jul 9, 2010, at 11:35 AM, Jim Anderson wrote:

> > Khristos wanted to send, in a reply, two file attachments containing
> > Chinese
> > characters.
> >
> If one sets one's e-mail client to UTF-8, one can send and receive Chinese
> characters. No need for file attachments. I received these emails with PDF
> files attached and no links. I would prefer not to get attachments. (As a
> Buddhist, I try to avoid them )
>
> Richard
> -------------------------------
> Thanks Richard et al.
>
> I also prefer not to get attachments in the group emails. The one sent was
> due to a mistake I made in the setting. After seeing some nasty results so
> far, I have decided to keep it at the old setting of no attachments
> whatsoever. If a member has some attachment or file to send, they can upload
> it to the files' section in the group's homepage and inform the rest of us
> about it and/or provide a link if possible. The best formats, I find, are
> RTF and PDF.
>
> Although I myself do not read Chinese and do not have a Chinese font
> installed, I see no reason why members who do know Chinese can't put Chinese
> characters in their messages. It is a good idea though to add a roman
> transliteration as in the example of Bryan's recent post in UTF-8: 非我 (fei
> wo). The Chinese characters on the left display as two narrow vertical
> rectangles in my mail viewer.
>
> Members are advised not to put special utf-8 characters in the subject line.
> Yahoo!groups isn't fully user-friendly with the utf-8 encoding in some
> areas.
>
> Jim
>
>

Richard Hayes
Department of Philosophy
MSC03 2140
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001

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