French Accents and Encoding

[Dick Smith]

K.D. Beausoleil wrote:
>
> Greetings! I'm having trouble receiving accented characters on my
> home computer in the following situation:
>
> I send a message from my office (Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3; IBM,
> Win3.1) to a discussion list. When I receive my message back from the
> list, its French accents are all in place on my office computer,
> exactly how they look in the Out Box.
>
> The same message sent from the list to my home computer (Eudora Pro
> 2.2 on IBM, Windows 3.1), looks like the "without any encoding" on p.
> 174 of the Eudora Pro Manual (I have a duplicate subscription to the
> list, two different addresses) -- the "é"s (that's an e accute, in
> case it didn't come out) come out as "i"s, and the other accents are
> similarly transformed.
>
> My keyboards are both set at Canadian French. Both computers are set
> at MIME, and if I send myself mail from office to home or vice-versa,
> everything's OK! I don't understand how the same message from the
> same list comes out differently at two different addresses. The only
> difference I can see is that the computers are connected to two
> different servers.
>
> I'd appreciate any help you can give me about this, at best, a
> solution or a workaround; at east, an explanation!
>
> Regards and thanks,
> Kay Beausoleil
> k...@megatoon.com
Have you tried enabling the "quoted-printable" option?
--
Dick Smith Mesa AZ - but it's a dry heat
Win95 NN3.0 IE3.0

[K.D. Beausoleil]

[K.D. Beausoleil]

Dick Smith <rcs...@netzone.com> wrote:

>K.D. Beausoleil wrote:

>> I send a message from my office (Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3; IBM,
>> Win3.1) to a discussion list. When I receive my message back from the
>> list, its French accents are all in place on my office computer,
>> exactly how they look in the Out Box.
>>
>> The same message sent from the list to my home computer (Eudora Pro
>> 2.2 on IBM, Windows 3.1), looks like the "without any encoding" on p.
>> 174 of the Eudora Pro Manual (I have a duplicate subscription to the
>> list, two different addresses) -- the "é"s (that's an e accute, in
>> case it didn't come out) come out as "i"s, and the other accents are
>> similarly transformed.
>>
>> My keyboards are both set at Canadian French. Both computers are set
>> at MIME, and if I send myself mail from office to home or vice-versa,
>> everything's OK! I don't understand how the same message from the
>> same list comes out differently at two different addresses. The only
>> difference I can see is that the computers are connected to two
>> different servers.

>Have you tried enabling the "quoted-printable" option?

Yes. Thanks, Dick, for taking the trouble to suggest this; I only wish
the answer had been that easy! Apologies to the group for not
e-mailing this reply, but my mail server is down.

Regards,
Kay Beausoleil
k...@megatoon.com

[K.D. Beausoleil]

In answer to my problem with French accents not turning out right when

sent back to me, Dick Smith <rcs...@netzone.com> wrote:

>Have you tried enabling the "quoted-printable" option?

And I, smart-ass that I am, answered: Yes. Thanks, Dick, for taking

the trouble to suggest this; I only wish the answer had been that
easy!

After checking one of the offending computers today, I realized that
Dick was right, and I had inadvertantly turned off the QP button. My
face is red, and thanks for the help!

Apologies,
Kay Beausoleil
k...@megatoon.com