A tip for Outlook users

[David Powelstock]

The use of UTF-7 in email is actively discouraged by standards organizations. If you're using UTF for Russian, it should always be UTF-8.
Cheers,
David

-----Original Message-----
From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Sarah Hurst
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 3:58 PM
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] A tip for Outlook users

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

-----Original Message-----
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

-- 
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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