From: ralphfralphf@xtraxtra.coco.nznz.undo-echo.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 00:34:14 -0600, in message   
    <4397D3E5.5C4F83CD@comcast.net>, sherwindu wrote:   
      
   > X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U)   
   > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8   
   >   
   > Hi Ralph,   
   >   
   >     Well, I plugged in my BabbleFish (see Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy)   
   and was able to read your   
   > message, with a little   
   > help from UTF-8.  My character set was set to 'Western'.  What is that used   
   for?   
      
      
   News & mail clients should automatically set the character set   
   for an incoming message, from the "charset=" parameter in the   
   Content-Type header.   
      
      
   "Western" in this case means the character set "ISO-8859-1".   
   That will be the default character encoding that your program   
   uses when the "charset=" parameter is not in the message header.   
      
      
   >     Your fix about dragging the names from one book to another worked.    
   However, I am going to make   
   > things a bit more   
   > complex.   What if the address books both reside under 4.7, but under   
   different user ID's?   
      
   You can copy address books from one user ID / profile to another.   
   1.  In the first user ID / profile, export the address book to .LDIF format.   
   2.  In the second user ID / profile...   
       2.1  Create a new empty address book with a suitable name.   
            From the address book window, File -> New Address Book   
       2.2  Import the .LDIF file into this new address book.   
      
      
   > I was   
   > able to use the DOS   
   > copy command to combine address books in the same user and then export them   
   to an LDIF.  I was then   
   > able to import   
   > them into my Netscape 7.1.  For various reasons, I still prefer to do my   
   emails in 4.7.   
      
   Your choice, but Netscape 4.7 has a number of problems in its   
   Unicode support.   
      
      
   > However,   
   > when I tried to go in the   
   > other direction by exporting an address book in 7.1 and importing it in 4.7,   
   the software went   
   > through the motions, but   
   > nothing got copied over.  Is this due to some incompatibility between the   
   two Netscape versions,   
      
      
   I've only tried this once or twice, and it worked for me.   
   I don't know why it didn't work for you.   
      
      
   > and   
   > is there some way   
   > to work around this?   
      
      
   You could try exporting in .CSV format from Netscape 7.1,   
   and then importing the .CSV file in 4.7.   
       File -> Import   
       Text file (address book)   
      
   Be aware that the CSV file format does not support mailing lists.   
   Any mailing lists will not be transferred this way.   
      
      
   >   
   >                                          Thanks for your help,   
   >   
   >                                                         Sherwin D.   
      
      
   --   
   Cheers,   
   Ralph   
      
   "There is only one boss, the customer. And he can fire everybody in   
   the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money   
   somewhere else." -- Sam Walton   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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