[TheForge] "download certain characters"

Wed Dec 25 21:16:01 2002

Thanks,  this explains it.    I think I changed the right setting so it
won't ask me to download anymore.
Merry Christmas!
-Kirsten
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Baker" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2002 3:57 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] "download certain characters" (WAS: Bradley
Hammers...)


> Yes, it is from someone who set their computer to use a certain character
> set that others, like myself, do not have. The system tries to download
the
> characters so we can see the original message. I say to cancel the
download
> and it prints the message in the current character set of my computer (and
> most others).
>
> Ray Baker
> Frontier Forge
> Olympia, WA
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Spencer" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2002 12:20 PM
> Subject: [TheForge] "download certain characters" (WAS: Bradley
Hammers...)
>
>
> >
> >
> > koka> How come this message initiated some attempt to download
> > koka> certain characters onto my computer?
> >
> > ralph> Does anyone else have this problem?
> >
> > I dopn't quite get the notion of "download certain characters".  I do
> > note that Ralph's posts have a header like:
> >
> > ralph>                Content-Type: text/plain;charset="iso-8859-4"
> >
> > while header lines like:
> >
> > [email protected]>   Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> >
> >
> > are more typical in email.
> >
> > koka appears to be using Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 to
> > read mail.  Does Outhouse Excess have some setting that automatically
> > tries to download a charter set spec, font file or the like from M$'s
> > servers when encoutering a mail header specifying a character set not
> > already configured on the local machine?
> >
> > If so, this could lead to a Windoes notice that "character <something
> > yadda yadda> is being downloaded".
> >
> > - Mike
> >
> > --
> > Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada
> >
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> > http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/
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