Hello!

Default OE6 message encoding.

I am having a new problem with OE6. Recently I have been getting replies
from people telling me my messages are all scrambled, which I can see
because they have the scrambled message included below their note to me.
This does not, however, occur with everyone I send messages to.

I don't know what is happening but in an attempt to investigate I discovered
that if I double-click on a name on my contact list, visible to the left of
my Preview pane, and a new message window comes up the blue bar at the top
says "New Message - Unicode (UTF-7)", even though I have the default set
(supposedly) at "Western European (ISO)" or sometimes "Western European
(Windows)". I did a test email to myself on another email address I have on
Yahoo allowing the "Unicode (UTF-7)" encoding and when I went to check the
message it too was scrambled!

If I begin a new message some other way it seems OK. No matter what I do,
however, I cannot get OE6 now to start a new message with the normal
encoding if I do it by clicking on one of my contacts!

Does anyone know what could be going on here?

Thanks,

--

DWK
Simi Valley, CA
USA

"D. W. K." wrote in message

I don't know what is happening but in an attempt to investigate I
discovered that if I double-click on a name on my contact list,
visible to the left of my Preview pane, and a new message window
comes up the blue bar at the top says "New Message - Unicode
(UTF-7)", even though I have the default set (supposedly) at "Western
European (ISO)" or sometimes "Western European (Windows)". I did a
test email to myself on another email address I have on Yahoo
allowing the "Unicode (UTF-7)" encoding and when I went to check the
message it too was scrambled!
If I begin a new message some other way it seems OK. No matter what I
do, however, I cannot get OE6 now to start a new message with the
normal encoding if I do it by clicking on one of my contacts!

Start a new message from a contact so that you see the UTF-7 again. Then in the
compose window, point to Encoding on the Format menu, then select the proper
encoding. OE *should* remember that for the future.

Also be sure you are sending your message with MIME. Click Options on the Tools
menu, then click the Send tab. At the bottom are 4 buttons for mail text, mail
html, news text, and news html. Check that mail/text and news/text are using
MIME/none. Mail/html and news/html should be set to use MIME/Quoted Printable.

--
Tom Koch, OE MVP
http://tomsterdam.com
http://insideoe.com
http://iusevista.com
Awareness is free.

Hi Tom:

Thank you for your response however when I tried that OE6 still used its
default encoding the next time. I did however discover another thing that
did work. I went to Tools, Options, Read tab then selected Fonts and
discovered there that it was somehow set to UTF-7. I changed that to
European (Windows) and selected "Set As Default" and the problem went away!
Thought I should pass that along.

Thanks again,

DWK
Simi Valley, CA, USA


"Tom Koch" wrote in message
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"D. W. K." wrote in message

I don't know what is happening but in an attempt to investigate I
discovered that if I double-click on a name on my contact list,
visible to the left of my Preview pane, and a new message window
comes up the blue bar at the top says "New Message - Unicode
(UTF-7)", even though I have the default set (supposedly) at "Western
European (ISO)" or sometimes "Western European (Windows)". I did a
test email to myself on another email address I have on Yahoo
allowing the "Unicode (UTF-7)" encoding and when I went to check the
message it too was scrambled!
If I begin a new message some other way it seems OK. No matter what I
do, however, I cannot get OE6 now to start a new message with the
normal encoding if I do it by clicking on one of my contacts!

Start a new message from a contact so that you see the UTF-7 again. Then
in the compose window, point to Encoding on the Format menu, then select
the proper encoding. OE *should* remember that for the future.

Also be sure you are sending your message with MIME. Click Options on the
Tools menu, then click the Send tab. At the bottom are 4 buttons for mail
text, mail html, news text, and news html. Check that mail/text and
news/text are using MIME/none. Mail/html and news/html should be set to
use MIME/Quoted Printable.

--
Tom Koch, OE MVP
http://tomsterdam.com
http://insideoe.com
http://iusevista.com
Awareness is free.