Re: Problems with accented characters

[Laurent Duperval <laurent duperval microcell ca>]

On 2003.01.16 10:44 Laurent Duperval wrote:
> How about Balsa message that show up with accented characters 
> replaced with "?". Is that a UTF-8 problem in reverse? Is that 
> correctible manually?
> 

Hi,

Anyone know about this one? I'm not sure I understand how text is 
handled in GNOME2 (or is it just Balsa?). For example, yesterday I sent 
myself a text attachment at home, which contained a lot of French 
characters. I used a mailer other than Balsa to view and save the file. 
When I looked at it with that mailer (tkrat), all the accented 
characters were replaced with little diamonds. Does this mean that text 
messages sent by Balsa must be read with a Balsa-compatible MUA? That 
seems wrong to me. What part of the equation am I missing here? 
Thanks,

L

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