John Barrs
July 7th, 2005, 05:25 AM
Dear All
This is a bit technical, if you aren't intersted, cease reading here.
If you continue reading then please feel free to offer advice and other input
I have located a series of problems on my machine which may or may not affect whether different individuals get to see my emails
Firstly, as I have said before it is an American piece of hardware with XP-Pro installed on it when it was over there.
i) this impacts on the fact that because I wanted to spell correctly (oops!) I set it to UK English
ii) However, the keyboard is so designed that to get the keys I need I had to leave the keyboard in USA English
Secondly, for a variety of reasons I have to use MS Outlook, from Office 2003. I have set everything both ways, in and out, to use
only plaintext; to only use fixed font
i) However, the settings for each individual in the addressbook override that..so if Joe Bloggs is set to receive html then it
sends html
the choices are, plaintext, htnl, let Outlook decide
Outlook always defaults to 'let outlook decide'
so 'replies' to people not in addressbook are 'let outlook decide'
so sending to someone on the 'autocomplete list' are 'are let outlook decide'
...
Outlook always decides minimally on richtext, proportional font if not outright html
This problem means that unless I am extremely careful, people using the hmi software like Tapcis and Ozwin get blank emails with
attachments
ii) another thing that impacts is the encoding used and here I think I have located a real problem...
To overcome problem above I carefully set one of three encodings, 'Western European ISO', 'Western European Windows' or 'USA
ASCII'
Suddenly Guerri wasn't receiving my emails from the group .... And when I tried to communicate directly with her, contact was
refused because she would only receive western encodings
At the time I was set on 'USA ASCII'
(presumably when my offerings were sent to her via yahoo listserver it was receiving the rejection messages.)
A lot of investigation revealed that Outlook in my setup defaults to *Central* European
1) Set encoding to say Western European ISO
send to someone in my addressbook
look at setting - it is Western European ISO
2) Set Encoding to Western European ISO
send to someone not in my address book (reply or autocomplete)
look at setting - It is Central European
3) Set encoding to Western European ISO
close and reopen Outlook
setting is Central European
I thought it might be my peculiar settings so I reverted to USA english for keyboard and language
No difference. setting is Central European
I thought it might be the zonal setting so I reset my zone to USA
No difference.setting is Central European
I thought it maight be all the messing about I have done with this machine so I went to a restore point before I had the machine
No difference.setting is Central European
So... Short of changing machines altogether, I can merely do my best. I appologise for any failures in communication (this message
claims to be going in Western European ISO)
JohnnyB [using email; via corypaheus/yahoogroups]
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This is a bit technical, if you aren't intersted, cease reading here.
If you continue reading then please feel free to offer advice and other input
I have located a series of problems on my machine which may or may not affect whether different individuals get to see my emails
Firstly, as I have said before it is an American piece of hardware with XP-Pro installed on it when it was over there.
i) this impacts on the fact that because I wanted to spell correctly (oops!) I set it to UK English
ii) However, the keyboard is so designed that to get the keys I need I had to leave the keyboard in USA English
Secondly, for a variety of reasons I have to use MS Outlook, from Office 2003. I have set everything both ways, in and out, to use
only plaintext; to only use fixed font
i) However, the settings for each individual in the addressbook override that..so if Joe Bloggs is set to receive html then it
sends html
the choices are, plaintext, htnl, let Outlook decide
Outlook always defaults to 'let outlook decide'
so 'replies' to people not in addressbook are 'let outlook decide'
so sending to someone on the 'autocomplete list' are 'are let outlook decide'
...
Outlook always decides minimally on richtext, proportional font if not outright html
This problem means that unless I am extremely careful, people using the hmi software like Tapcis and Ozwin get blank emails with
attachments
ii) another thing that impacts is the encoding used and here I think I have located a real problem...
To overcome problem above I carefully set one of three encodings, 'Western European ISO', 'Western European Windows' or 'USA
ASCII'
Suddenly Guerri wasn't receiving my emails from the group .... And when I tried to communicate directly with her, contact was
refused because she would only receive western encodings
At the time I was set on 'USA ASCII'
(presumably when my offerings were sent to her via yahoo listserver it was receiving the rejection messages.)
A lot of investigation revealed that Outlook in my setup defaults to *Central* European
1) Set encoding to say Western European ISO
send to someone in my addressbook
look at setting - it is Western European ISO
2) Set Encoding to Western European ISO
send to someone not in my address book (reply or autocomplete)
look at setting - It is Central European
3) Set encoding to Western European ISO
close and reopen Outlook
setting is Central European
I thought it might be my peculiar settings so I reverted to USA english for keyboard and language
No difference. setting is Central European
I thought it might be the zonal setting so I reset my zone to USA
No difference.setting is Central European
I thought it maight be all the messing about I have done with this machine so I went to a restore point before I had the machine
No difference.setting is Central European
So... Short of changing machines altogether, I can merely do my best. I appologise for any failures in communication (this message
claims to be going in Western European ISO)
JohnnyB [using email; via corypaheus/yahoogroups]
--
No virus found in this outgoing message.
Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.
Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.10/43 - Release Date: 06/07/2005