Formatting (Was: Why Rowling should not have outed DD)

[Steve]

---  "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
>
> Carol earlier:
> 
> > > I agree with your point completely, but I'm quoting it for
> > > a different reason. The post is hard to read because Yahoo 
> > > has mangled it.
> > > 
> > > The only way I know to prevent Yahoo from treating 
> > > apostrophes and asterisks as if they were some sort of 
> > > indecipherable code is to post from the list. I vaguely 
> > > remember, though, a suggestion posted to this list for 
> > > avoiding this kind of garbling in messages ...
> > 
> > bboyminn:
> > 
> > First you can correct Tonks original Post by switching the
> > View of your browser's Character Encoding to Unicode(UTF-8).
> >  
> > Using SeaMonkey/Mozilla, from the menu, select 
> > 
> > [View] [Character Encoding] [Unicode(UTF-8)]
> > 
> > So, usually these characters creep in for one of a couple of
> >  reasons. 
> >

> Carol responds:
> 
> Whoa! I never dreamed that it was my browser settings. I 
> thought that everyone was seeing the @#*^ (or whatever) that
>  I was seeing. I don't know about Sea Monkey/Mozilla, but I
> corrected the problem by going to character encoding on the 
> View menu in Netscape. ...
> 

bboyminn:

Netscape???? If you are using a Netscape browser it must be
ancient. SeaMonkey from Mozilla is the new modern replacement
for Netscape.

Note, the standard Mozilla browser has been broken apart into
two applications Firefox Browser (v2.0.0.9) and Thunderbird
Emai (v2.0.0.6) both good programs, and both installed on
my computer. For the record you are MUCH MUCH better off using
Thunderbird than you are using MS-Outlook. Nearly all email
viruses exploit weakness in the Outlook email program. 

Personally, I prefer the fully integrated (browser/email/chat)
Mozilla SeaMonkey, and it is the ideal replacement for 
Netscape. I just downloaded the current version (v1.1.6) and
it was 13Mb. For an integrated browser that is not really 
that large a program. 

> Carol:
> So now that I have the browser set to Unicode UTF-8, will I 
> be able to view, say, Greek or Russian characters or even 
> Chinese in a Yahoo post or e-mail message? (Not that I could 
> read them, but I could at least transliterate the Greek). How
> about pronunciation symbols from online dictionaries?
> 
> Carol, 

bboyminn:

Actually, if you look in detail at the View - Character 
Encoding menu, you will find that Chinese, Greek, Russian,
etc... all have their own character encodings. 

Keep in mind their is a difference between Character Encoding
and Fonts, you can have either one without the other. 

For example, I have Korean Character Encoding available, but 
did not have a Korean Font installed, so I couldn't view
emails that come from Korea. WinXP does have an Eastern
Asian group of fonts that I installed, and now I can see
my Korean emails. It's confusing, and beyond what I've said
I don't think I can explain the difference between 
Character Encoding and Fonts much better than I have.

To see if you have Chinese Fonts on your computer, try
going to the Wikipedia front page.

http://www.wikipedia.org/

The third language down on the left side is Chinese (or it
could be Japanese), if you see Chinese characters then you 
have the fonts. If not Wikipedia will likely prompt you to 
download those font. I think it actually has the fonts 
available and will auto download them if you allow it.

For what it's worth.

Steve/bboyminn