I have received a message in Greek characters. When I try to copy and paste
it into my translator program, the pasted characters appear in an English
font and, therefore, the translation program does not recognize them as
Greek. The translator program itself does not have a font adjustment feature
and the maker claims none is necessary. Why might the Greek characters not
retain the Greek font during the copy and paste process?

I'm operating under Win XP Pro w/SP2.

Take a look at the message source (Ctrl-F3) for the incoming message.

If it uses MIME format, the sender specified the font and character set
(encoding) to use. The translation program might be expecting a
specific encoding or perhaps no encoding.

If in the message source it still displays as Greek characters, try
doing the copy/paste from there.

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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"Bob Fliegel" wrote in message
...
I have received a message in Greek characters. When I try to copy and
paste
it into my translator program, the pasted characters appear in an
English
font and, therefore, the translation program does not recognize them
as
Greek. The translator program itself does not have a font adjustment
feature
and the maker claims none is necessary. Why might the Greek characters
not
retain the Greek font during the copy and paste process?

I'm operating under Win XP Pro w/SP2.

The message source indicates MIME-Version: 1.0, but the text in the source
window is in English, not Greek characters. Still, they do appear in Greek
characters in OE's incoming message window. I'm not sure where to go from
here.

"Michael Santovec" wrote:

Take a look at the message source (Ctrl-F3) for the incoming message.

If it uses MIME format, the sender specified the font and character set
(encoding) to use. The translation program might be expecting a
specific encoding or perhaps no encoding.

If in the message source it still displays as Greek characters, try
doing the copy/paste from there.

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"Bob Fliegel" wrote in message
...
I have received a message in Greek characters. When I try to copy and
paste
it into my translator program, the pasted characters appear in an
English
font and, therefore, the translation program does not recognize them
as
Greek. The translator program itself does not have a font adjustment
feature
and the maker claims none is necessary. Why might the Greek characters
not
retain the Greek font during the copy and paste process?

I'm operating under Win XP Pro w/SP2.