Re: Japanese and Greek characters

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From: Paul Berkowitz (berkowit_at_spoof_silcom.com)
Date: 03/01/04 

Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 13:32:19 -0800

On 2/29/04 10:18 PM, in article e$UaMU1$DHA.3256@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl,
"Johnny" <invalid@invalid.com> wrote:

> I've not figured out how to send/receive mails with Japanese and Greek
> characters.
> Have tried several settings to no avail.
> Works fine in Thunderbird with UTF-8, but not in Entourage.
> What am I doing wrong?

When you're about to compose a message and have the window open, go to
Format menu/Character Set. If the message has only Japanese or Greek, but
not both, you could choose one of those character sets if you wish. (That
way, if your recipient happens not to have an email client that can read
Unicode but can read that particular JIS or Greek character set, they can
read your message.) If you need to send both in the same message (?), or you
know that your recipient's email client can read Unicode (Outlook PC,
Outlook Express, Entourage, Apple Mail) it's easiest just to select UTF-8.
That will work right for most recipients. 

-- 
Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
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