Hi Alex,

Did you try substituting HTML "symbolic entity names" for literal accented
chacters? For instance, try this in your trailer.txt file:

"Ce message est distribué à tous les employés.
Toute réponse à ce message sera distribuée à
tous les employés."

A complete table of these entity names can be found at (for example)
http://www.ramsch.org/martin/uni/fmi-hp/iso8859-1.html

Hope this does the trick for you; I can't test it right now.

Guy (in Montréal)

----- Original Message -----
From: Alex Nuta
Subject: [IMail Forum] trailer.txt accents
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 12:17:30 -0700

Hi there.


Does anyone on this list operate an Imail 8.01 server in Quebec or France?
I'm having a small problem with French accents in trailer.txt and
header.txt.

Here's the text I placed in the mailing list's trailer.txt:


"Ce message est distribu� � tous les employ�s.
Toute r�ponse � ce message sera distribu�e � tous les employ�s."

This is what the users actually got.


"Ce message est distribui ` tous les employis.
Toute riponse ` ce message sera distribuie ` tous les employis."

The character set of the message was Western European, and the text was
received like this on Eudora, Outlook, Outlook Express and Incredimail, so I
don't think it's at the user level.

I've seen another such problem on an Imail version 4 installation some years
back, except the accents were converted to Chinese characters. We never did
figure it out back then, IIRC.

Anyone have any ideas?

Alex Nuta
Network Administrator
Distribution Directe

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