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   gwtc to Olive   
   Re: Emails of different languages   
   07 Jan 06 21:36:41   
   
   From: TheNewGWTC@pppmppfmpfmmmmfmmmpfmmpp.pppmppfmp   
      
   Olive wrote:   
      
   > With all the online translators available you would think people with   
   > different languages would converse more.  When I get an email of   
   > another language I can't paste the contents into a translator because   
   > the "text" is just symbols meaning nothing.   
   >   
   > How does one change settings of their computer or Netscape such that   
   > french email comes through as "text" that one could just paste into an   
   > online translator?   
   >   
   > For instance, if I receive a spanish email asking me if I speak   
   > spanish what I see in my email body is not the "text"  habla espanol?   
   > but I see wierd symbols such as @#a%%4y  U**~$"   
   >   
   > But I want the body of the email to read "habla espanol?"   
   >   
   > What settings do I change?   
   > Olive   
   fiddle around with the Character Encoding under View   
      
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