Re: Gibberish in 'From' and 'Subject' fields

From: karnaf (karnafski_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/22/04 

Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 20:28:30 +0200

But I do want to get those emails, I don't want to delete them, I just want
them to be dispalyed properly....

"Bruce Hagen" <Nospam@mymail.invalid> wrote in message
news:%23LZX$8$bEHA.2972@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> To eliminate these e-mails, go to the Character Map,
> Start>Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Character Map. Click on some
> of the common characters you see in the subject and writhe down the
> Keystroke number at the bottom right. Then create a rule:
>
> Where the subject line contains specific words
> Delete it from server
> Click on the blue *contains specific words* in box 3 and add these
> characters one at a time.
>
> It'll take about 20 minutes to do all this, but I did it and haven't
> seen one of those e-mails since.
> --
> Bruce Hagen
> ~IB-CA~
>
>
> "karnaf" <karnafski@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23vpc3t9bEHA.2816@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > There are those people who insist on sending me emails where the
> subject is
> > not in English (Hebrew in my case). Some of them have their
> display name in
> > Hebrew too...
> >
> > When it gets to my inbox, I get western european characters (stuff
> like
> > ويلقَـّ) or just lots of question marks instead of the original
> text in the
> > 'From' and the 'Subject' columns. When I open the messege in most
> cases I
> > get the text in the right language, but I want to know who the
> sender is and
> > what the email is about before opening it (you know, there are
> those evil
> > viruses out there trying to get me....)
> >
> > It looks like a simple encoding problem but I can't seem to find a
> place
> > where I can change the encoding of the text in those columns in the
> mailbox
> > view. I have tried changing the defaults in Options->Read->Fonts
> to Hebrew
> > (both the fonts and the international settings) but it didnt help.
> For the
> > record, I am using both Outlook Express and Outlook and I have the
> problem
> > in both with small differences.
> >
> > OS: MS WinXP Pro (Default lang - En, Secondary lang - He)
> > OE: 6.00.2800.1123
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
>
>

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