3 Nov
2002
3 Nov
'02
1:16 p.m.
On Nov 3, 15:55, John Allain wrote:
A while back I noticed that sometimes after setting an
encoding and
sending to the list that the encoding was lost to UTF-7 anyway. This
was about the same time as the list software change so back them I
assumed incorrectly that the new software was setting UTF-7 headers
(Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-7") and loosing my ISO ones
(...charset="iso-8859-1"). Now it seems that the way the setting was
getting lost was by saving and recalling message drafts in MS OExpress.
It is very possible that there are other ways MS will mess this up but
for
now I think it's fixed.
Well, it seems to be, for this message at least. Thanks for persevering
with this, I almost added an <aol>metoo</aol> to Sellam's message :-)
FYI here is my file entry on the subject.
"List of Encoding Problems with Outlook Express:
You can't shut off charset encoding.
(Two choices: MIME and UUEncode.
There is a "MIME: encode text using None"
option which doesn't work, it still encodes.)
You can't set an encoding 'for once and for all'.
There is no clear indicator of the encoding in use
(have to go down two menus to check/set each message).
Selecting a useful encoding [Western European (ISO)]
results in display using an undesirable proportional
width font.
Manually selected encodings are easily lost and overridden
to UTF-7 (example: set ISO, save as Draft, recall, send,
it will be UTF-7**)
The appearance of an encoding is buggy; what appears when
reviewing a saved message is sometimes decoded, sometimes
not, with the same message.
Can't check a message header on an unsent message."
so Sellam aggravation is nothing compared to this <g>
I can imagine! But other people use OE without these problems. My mailbox
currently contains 47 messages created with OE, including some from at
least ten other listmembers, and only yours have the UTF-7 problem(s).
Some are version 4.72, some 5, some 5.50, some 6.00, etc. I even found
several with exactly the same version you have (5.00.2615.200), so it looks
like there's something else in your setup that's making OE prefer UTF-7. I
don't know much about Outlook or Express, but doesn't it have two or three
places for these settings? One for current, one for default, and maybe
something for per-recipient preferences (as in "this user prefers to
receive fancy text" or something similar)?
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York