A tip for Outlook users
Paul B. Gallagher
paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM
Fri Dec 18 20:48:54 UTC 2009
Since we sometimes see question marks for Cyrillic here when Outlook
sends in 7-bit ASCII instead of a more appropriate encoding, I thought
I'd forward this commentary from a colleague who learned his lesson:
> My Outlook was set up to use UTF-8 for outgoing messages, but if I
> answered a message that was not in UTF-8, Outlook switched to the
> encoding of the original message (Western European (ISO) in this
> case) and messed everything up in my reply. Perhaps the problem is
> that the checkbox "Auto-select encoding for outgoing messages" under
> "Mail format --> International options" was unchecked. When checked,
> it is supposed to force Outlook to scan the outgoing message and
> select an appropriate encoding that can take care of all the
> encodings contained in the message (and should select UTF-8 for
> multilingual messages). Now, let's see...
And sure enough, when he resent his message as described, it came
through fine.
HTH
--
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
pbg translations, inc.
"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
http://pbg-translations.com
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