Unicode! what does this mean?

derrick

I am using Outlook Express and don't usually have any problems, I have been sending and receiving e-mails OK, but one I have just wanted to send came up with the window below, now I am not sending any attachments, pictures or anything else, it is just a regular e-mail with two url links in it,( I have sent loads of these before with many more url links in them without problems), I sent the e-mail first to myself using the "Send As Is" and it arrived without any problems, so I have sent the e-mail the same way to the recipient.

Why has this happened and what happens if; -
1) The recipient does not receive it or it is received in some weird form, (although I know it has been received as the e-mail was tagged and it has been opened).

2) I send it as; - "Send As Unicode"

I also sent another e-mail to myself with just a few random words in it, and it went right away without the pop up window!

fwor

The URLs probably contain characters which are not within your default character set - or appear not to be.

If you don't send as Unicode it won't look odd to the recipient, but the links probably won't work.

If you send it as Unicode the URLs may look odd, but they should work Ok.

derrick

fwor wrote: »

The URLs probably contain characters which are not within your default character set - or appear not to be.

If you don't send as Unicode it won't look odd to the recipient, but the links probably won't work.

If you send it as Unicode the URLs may look odd, but they should work Ok.

Sent them to myself using both forms, received e-mails looked the same and all urls opened to the correct web pages!

vyseyboy

There must be characters with accents, graves, umlauts, cyrillic script, chinese characters, korean, arabic.... anything.

There must be something non-roman somewhere in the email.

By sending as unicode, the email should get through in a readable format, so long as the recipient has unicode support. Modern versions of outlook express support unicode, so if they have OE installed, all should be well. Unicode can be enabled for sending (and for reading,) as per here:

http://www.code2000.net/interoutlook.html

derrick

vyseyboy wrote: »

There must be characters with accents, graves, umlauts, cyrillic script, chinese characters, korean, arabic.... anything.

There must be something non-roman somewhere in the email.

By sending as unicode, the email should get through in a readable format, so long as the recipient has unicode support. Modern versions of outlook express support unicode, so if they have OE installed, all should be well. Unicode can be enabled for sending (and for reading,) as per here:

http://www.code2000.net/interoutlook.html

That is OK if they have OE, but as it was a multi national company I do not know if they have,(I have sent various e-mails to this company, with url links, without this window ever popping up), the e-mail I sent yesterday was opened by the recipient as I said earlier, I sent same e-mail to myself in both forms and both where received , readable and links worked.

I have looked at the link you gave and am reluctant to alter the settings that are in there as they have been working OK for months.

Read has "Western Europe" as font setting, proportional font as Arial, Fixed-width font as Courier New, font size as medium, encoding as Western Europe (windows), and default encoding as Western Europe (windows).

Mail sending format is HTML,( if I use plain text, as suggested in your link, I don't have the use of bold,underline,italics, font settings and colours etc), and I have ticked the box "reply to messages using the format in which they were sent", although the message I was sending was new, not a reply. And by sending in unicode, I do not know if "the recipient has unicode support"