I suspect the difference between the message that gave you trouble and previous ones from Helen is the troublesome one involved a cut-and-paste from her word processing program. The others were probably typed directly into her e-mail program -- or perhaps didn't involve the tabulation spaces she appears to have used this time. A little over a year ago, I had the reverse of your problem. The e-mail program I was using then couldn't properly handle German characters produced by a Windows e-mail program. To handle translations a cousin was doing for me, we resorted to cutting-and-pasting from a Word document he sent as an attachment. It got the proper characters into my e-mail going to Germany. My current version of the e-mail program doesn't need that work around. -- Karl Seitz >If I wrote a terrabyte of RAM, I was getting ahead of >myself............... that's a terrabyte of hard drives which is no >big deal today, what with 500g hard drives becoming dirt cheap. > >I will have my son look at my settings. What I don't understand is >why I've received a lot of messages from Helen before but the one >that I received garbled is only the 2nd one that I've received like >that, IIRC. > >Al > > > >At 05:43 PM 2/8/2007, you wrote: >>Al, >>I just got off the phone with a friend of ours who is a Mac developer and >>travels around the world for Mac, teaching and lecturing. After reading him >>these emails....... he says, if you can't read Helen's email and I can it's >>because something in your settings is turned off that should be turned on. >>Email is encoded and something in your email is stopped it from de-coding. >>He said you should have your son check your settings because the problem is >>not with Helen's computer. >> >>A "terrabyte" of RAM????????? Amazing, not even Bill Gates' kids (who by the >>way have Macs) have 1000 gigs of RAM. >> > >Now, let's get back to genealogy discussions. >>