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List:       kdepim-users
Subject:    Re: [kdepim-users] Viewing Problem
From:       Derek Broughton <derek () pointerstop ! ca>
Date:       2006-09-17 18:35:25
Message-ID: 200609171535.25210.derek () pointerstop ! ca
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On Saturday 16 September 2006 02:47, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 15 September 2006 23:59, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> > I hope this makes sense. The following is from an email sent to me by one
> > of my associates.
> >
> > "₀₁₂₃₄₅₆₇₈₉⁰ � � �⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹"
> >
> > You may notice that only characters 2 through 5 and 12 through 15 are
> > viewable. The rest appear as square boxes. At least they do on my
> > console. Yet, if I do a copy and paste routine on them, and say paste
> > them into an Open~Office document, all of the characters are clearly
> > visable. Why is this? I have everything set to auto in the view menu.
>
> I can see characters 0-9 in small standard placement and 0-9 in
> superscript.

Same here.

> This sounds like a mis-match between his character encoding and yours. 
> Mine is set to utf-8.  Try telling kmail to use that and see if it cures
> the problem.

Mine's set to "Auto-detect", which often seems not to work (perhaps only for 
character sets for which I'd need other fonts installed - certainly it only 
seems to be an issue with spam, and who cares if you can't read that!), but 
works in this case.
-- 
derek
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