Some help from international list members?

[Kelley]

> bboyminn:
> <snip> So, when an email comes for a non-English alphabet 
> person, you could try highlighting whatever text you can 
> find, then selecting a very standard English font like 
> Arial or Times New Roman, and see if anything appears.

Hm, okay; I tried highlighting and copying where the text 
would be and it did allow me to copy (and then paste), so
*something* is there.  However, trying to change the font
didn't end up showing me anything, unfortunately. Pasted
it into a blank email and then into notepad, and even 
forwarded the message to my gmail account and changed the
setting there to Arabic text, and nothing.  But yes, there's
definitely something there..
 
Steve:
> Also when you get a problem email, you could try setting 
> Character Encoding to Unicode (UFT-8). 

Grr, Outlook Express will let me change the encoding when
sending a message, but not to read them; Western European 
(Windows) is the default, no way to change it.

Steve:
> It would be best if the person sending the message 
> remembered to write it in a standard Windows English 
> language font. In most cases, the common fonts used by 
> Yahoo are - Arial, and Courier New.

Yes, this probably the sort of thing I need to explain to 
them; I'll need to find out how to make that change in 
yahoo.co.in accounts.

Steve: 
> Don't know if that helps at all. 

It does indeed, gives me a better idea of what the problem
might be.
 
Steve:
> If you want to forward the questionable message to me, 
> I might be able to analyse it and figure out where the 
> problem is.

Oh thanks, Steve, I appreciate that!  I do have one I can 
forward to you; you'd certainly know better than me how to 
figure this out. ;-)

--Kelley