A tip for Outlook users
Sarah Hurst
sarahhurst at ALASKA.NET
Fri Dec 18 20:57:47 UTC 2009
Thanks for this. I didn't know about the "international options" area of Outlook and I've found how to switch to UTF-8 (Unicode). Is UTF-8 preferred over UTF-7, does anyone know?
Sarah Hurst
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From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul B. Gallagher
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 11:49 AM
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Subject: [SEELANGS] A tip for Outlook users
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
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Paul B. Gallagher
pbg translations, inc.
"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
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