Greetings all... I have a question to all you seasoned Polish speakers and recipients of foreign email. I use Eudora(version 7.1.0.9)-Windows XP, and I have enabled Polish in Text Services. I have been receiving email from a family member in Poland(finally...success!). When I receive email, the Polish diacritics are replaced with what looks like random symbols. Is there a diacrtitc/symbol correlation? Regards, Laura DePaolis Sugar Land TX

You need to ensure that your mail reading program is set to use the same Character Encoding that was used to write the message. You can figure this out in various ways: 1. Trial and Error. Simply tell your program to use a specific Character Encoding. Likely possibilities for Polish are Unicode (UTF-8), Central European (ISO-8859-2), Central European (Windows-1250). See if any of these will fix the display. 2. Check the Source. Look at the mail in its source format. There should be a header line that specifies the Character Encoding being used. Then ensure that your viewer uses the same Encoding. 3. Ask your Correspondent. They might know. If you are using dated software, you might be out of luck. For best results, you should correspond using Unicode Character Encoding. This mail uses it - and if your mail viewer is properly configured you should be able to correctly view the following Polish and Cyrillic character. Ą Ę Ł Ó Ć Ś Ń ... Ш Э Ф З Ъ Ь И Й Roman Laura DePaolis wrote: > Greetings all... > > I have a question to all you seasoned Polish speakers and recipients of foreign email. I use Eudora(version 7.1.0.9)-Windows XP, and I have enabled Polish in Text Services. > > I have been receiving email from a family member in Poland(finally...success!). > > When I receive email, the Polish diacritics are replaced with what looks like random symbols. > > Is there a diacrtitc/symbol correlation? > > Regards, > > Laura DePaolis > Sugar Land TX > > > > ********************************* > Need to contact the list manager? Write to Marie at Poland-Roots-admin@rootsweb.com > ---------------------------------- > Discussion of Polish food, culture, and customs are welcome on the list as long as the discussion stays pertinent to the topic of this list: researching our Polish roots. > ---------------------------------- > Browse the list's archives here: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=poland-roots > Search the list's archives here: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?aop=1 > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to POLAND-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Laura, it sounds like the email program isn't recognizing the Polish diacritcs at all. Try resetting the text services and maybe enabling them for the entire computer would help. I'm not an expert on how to do it but I'm sure there is someone on the list that can help. Sometimes I get that same effect on emails I receive with foreign alphabets. Laura DePaolis wrote: > Greetings all... > > I have a question to all you seasoned Polish speakers and recipients of foreign email. I use Eudora(version 7.1.0.9)-Windows XP, and I have enabled Polish in Text Services. > > I have been receiving email from a family member in Poland(finally...success!). > > When I receive email, the Polish diacritics are replaced with what looks like random symbols. > > Is there a diacrtitc/symbol correlation? > > Regards, > > Laura DePaolis > Sugar Land TX > > > > ********************************* > Need to contact the list manager? Write to Marie at Poland-Roots-admin@rootsweb.com > ---------------------------------- > Discussion of Polish food, culture, and customs are welcome on the list as long as the discussion stays pertinent to the topic of this list: researching our Polish roots. > ---------------------------------- > Browse the list's archives here: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=poland-roots > Search the list's archives here: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?aop=1 > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to POLAND-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >