Re: Unicode in "plain text"

Mike Ellis wrote:
> Paul Bennett wrote:
>
> >I suspect it's to do with having the right fonts installed and available.
>
> I managed to address "installed", but that didn't seem to
> affect "available".
>
> >Which version of MS IE are you using?
> 6.0
I have, I think, IE 5. I also have Windows 2000, MS Word 2000 and something
called Open Office.org Writer-- these do include Lucida Sans Unicode; other
fonts include parts of Unicode. On past occasions, I've received material in
Cyrillic and Hebrew with no trouble at all.  Jan van S.'s Wenedyk (sp.?)
posts generally come thru garbled, but I can go to View>Encoding and change
it to UTF8 and see them perfectly.  But as you may recall from my past
comments, I really do not understand what's going on in my computer.:-(((

I know that if I compose an email msg in Word or Office Writer, I can
include Unicode characters, and they display when the msg. comes back to me,
but I don't know if others can see them, so I tend to avoid doing that.
Also, for obscure reasons, msgs. composed in those programs are difficult to
send, and require some acrobatics.

Yitzik's recent post with Georgian and Armenian came thru, but evidently
with a couple missing characters.  I've never received, nor written with MS
Word, anything involving Thai, Arabic or Vietnamese, though I think those
fonts are available.  There are so many fonts in this version of Word that I
haven't even been able to explore all of them.

> >What version of Windows are you running?
> 98se.
That might be the problem; my previous computer had W98, and no Unicode
capability in email at all, nor in the Corel WP8 that was installed.  That
had a variety of "multinational" charsets as Special characters, but those
didn't work anywhere else, and most other computers had difficulty reading
my WP files.  Aargh. In email the accented characters up to 0255 (with
keyboard set to US International) were the extent of it. (Although one time,
I was amazed to receive a post, from Padraic Brown, with real live IPA in
it.  I don't know how that happened!)

This is probably not much help. These technical matters are way beyond my
comprehension.