Re: OT: Technicalities again (was In Search Of Oethala)

Pavel Iosad wrote:
(I wrote:)
>> Msgs. from Pavel, Mau, Balasz (pardon my spelling) appear in
>> large, bold
>> Arial(?) with all accents intact, but of course they're
>> sending in Central
>> European.
>
>Huh?
>
>Actually my Outlook XP decides what encoding to send the message in the
>moment I hit "Send", and I can't change anything. I try to send plain
>text (when I'm writing English) in the normal Windows encoding,
Sorry, I shouldn't have included you; your messages generally come through
normally.  But sometimes they don't-- perhaps that's when you're using
Cyrillic mixture.

>but with
>weird characters it screws up. For instance, when I send plain text
>emails with BOTH Cyrillic and accented Latin-1 characters, it goes away
>as (variously) Chinese GB Simplified or Windows Korean. Actually my
>message on oe-ligatue came back as plain text BUT with a mix of Courier
>and Arial, and the encoding it shows is Windows Arabic!!! I hate this
>thing emphatically.
I don't hate it, exactly, but it certainly is a mystery and an annoyance at
times. :-)
(Old dogs and new tricks, etc etc........)