Hello Thomas, Friday, November 1, 2002, 9:04:23 AM, you wrote:
TF> Hello Mary, >> My sister sent me a FWD re a genealogy file. Since I thought it was an >> attachment, I enabled Rich Text/html in the viewer. Opened the message >> and it came up as a page full of little squares. TF> Rich text and HTML are two different things. Anyway, over here I get TF> squares only if my computer does not have the fonts associated with TF> the character codes. This in turn has to do with the character coding TF> chosen. Well, in my copy of TB, v.1.61 Options/Preferences/View, the drop-down box gives you two choices: Fixed Width Fonts (which means text only) and Rich Text/html (which I take to mean both, even though they are not the same thing). TF> As a matter of fact, I have so far only seen this in Word documents, TF> not in emails. This may very well have been a Word document, but it opened in the body of the message when I clicked Reply. >> I decided to reply to her and ask her to re-send, so I could re-open >> it in much-maligned OE. In Reply (Edit Message) all the squares became TF> (legible) TF> This is weird. Because TB uses the same character code for replies TF> that was assigned to the original message. >> Question: Is this normal tbudl behavior? TF> I have never experienced this, but that doesn't mean that we won;t TF> solve the mystery. To the contrary. That's what tbudl's for, Nicht wahr? -- Best regards, Mary mailto:mrbull@;premiernet.net ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
