Charsets and funny little squares,fonts received as email to decipher.
leeppp
little squares and the term "charsets" is mentioned. I can`t decipher
these things using the drop down menu provided. Would some kind soul
explain what is meant by the term "charset" and how to
understand/decipher these convoluted strange font objects. Thanks very
much and happy holidaze. LEE
H. Dziardziel
The mail is using a language that needs a character set different
from that your operating system provides. Usually this is an
Asian or Cyrillac language character that is not included in the
o/s so it defaults to the little placeholder squares..
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leeppp
Thanks very much for the info. LEE
Jim Adney
>I noticed that on several spam type emails the subject consists of
>little squares and the term "charsets" is mentioned. I can`t decipher
>these things using the drop down menu provided. Would some kind soul
>explain what is meant by the term "charset" and how to
>understand/decipher these convoluted strange font objects.
Charset probably stands for character set. I believe that when your PC
gets characters that are not part of the normal ASCII character set
your software will usually interpret these as little squares or
rectangles. This is pretty common.
As you noticed, these are usually spam and should just be deleted. I
suspect that some of them often contain email viruses. Handle with
care.
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Jim Adney jad...@vwtype3.org
Madison,Wisconsin USA
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Stephen Shaw
More often than not it is Korean. If you switch on the "headers" in your email,
you'll see the sender's email address ends in ".kr" for Korea.
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