At 04:04 PM 5/1/2006 -0700, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
Nick Zentena wrote:
On Monday 01 May 2006 18:49, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
/snip/ The above message didn't come in Japanese (or whatever) characters. It was received in XP, by Eudora, with which I've never had the problem. Since the problem surfaced, a few days ago, there have been at least 10 messages that showed up in KMail in this strange font. One of them was something _not_ from the list, which I really wanted to read. (It was from the NY Times, and was certainly not written in an Asian font.) Unless someone can come up with an answer to this goofy situation, I am forced to go back to my favorite email program--Eudora--and not fool with Linux again, since my major use of the OS is for email. (I do use the Open Office programs, but usually in conjunction with email.) This would be too bad. I really don't trust M/S not to screw me badly, one way or the other, but I need to be able to reliably read the email that comes to me. To reiterate the situation, 97% of the email comes readable. Perhaps 3% comes in Japanese(?) font, even tho sent in Roman characters. That computer is a Fry's, with a Pentium 4, probably about 2 GHz (I don't remember), a Sony CRT, and SuSE 10.0 Professional. Both computers receive the Internet from a Linksys BEFXS 4-port wired router, connected to a cable system via their interface. This computer is an Asus P4PE mobo, home brewed for peripherals. I don't have any problem with it, except that the Linux I installed on it cannot download emails! I think it will connect to the net, I don't remember, since I bought a machine to dedicate to Linux. I seem to remember that the video system on here is not happy with SuSE, or vice versa. [A few days ago, I complained that the printing was scrunched together on the Fry's machine. Now I suppose it's mad at me, so it prints in Japanese. These characters don't seem to be scrunched together. Oh well....] Baffled-- doug -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.1/327 - Release Date: 4/28/2006