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majan_ca skrev:
> --- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, "old_astrologer"
> <old_astrologer@...> wrote:
>
>> Marc Pasquin made two posts in two minutes yesterday: the
>> first has appeared in Unicode, the second is in Windows-
>> 1252 (what?). Did you
> do
>> something to your browser, Marc, or is Yahoo playing
>> tricks with both of us?
>
> I'd go with the "yahoo playing trick" option.
>
> Marc Pasquin
We have several things to deal with here:
1) If you are sending a regular mail from a POP-client: has
the encoding been explicitly set in the mail headers?
2) If you are sending thru the web interface: is there an
option to set the encoding, and is it correctly set?
3) If the encoding isn't set explicitly and correctly when
sending some mailserver or your client OR yahoo's web
interface engine may try to guess the encoding and fail.
4) In either (1) or (2) when *viewing* thru the web
interface: is the encoding of the page set correctly?
My advice is to:
a) Use a mail client and not the web interface.
b) Make sure the encoding is explicitly and correctly set
when sending your mails. There are usually settings
for this in both program options and menus in all good
mail clients (Use Thunderbird rather than
Outlook/Outlook Express!)
c) Make sure to use plain text in mails and not HTML, which
is plain evil in an email context. This at least can be
ensured even if you otherwise have to use the web
interface.
/BP 8^)>
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