RE: Is there Unicode mail out there?

From: Ayers, Mike (Mike_Ayers@bmc.com)
Date: Thu Jul 12 2001 - 13:55:14 EDT


> From: Jungshik Shin [mailto:jshin@mailaps.org]

> Mysterious is why this prompting (by MS OE) did not happen to Mike
> Ayers when he replied to Peter's message with Thai string in
> Windows-874
> adding some Chinese characters while MS OE (5.50.xxxxx) I
> tried certainly
> prompted me to pick one of three (1. send as Unicode, 2. send as is -
> in Windows-874 - risking loss of info. 3. cancel) when I did the same
> thing. ZWS and Chinese characters have no reason to be
> treated differently
> when added to a Windows-874 encoded message.

        Not mysterious really, I'm using Outlook, not Outlook Express.
Despite the similarity of names, the differences seem to be considerable.
It is disturbing, though, that the premium product has less desireable
behavior than the free one in this case.

/|/|ike



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