PC Win: Accented Characters Lost in Insert from File (93240)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Mail for Windows 3.0
This article was previously published under Q93240 SYMPTOMS
If you choose Insert From File from the Edit menu to insert a file that
contains accented characters (such as an e or an a with an accent mark on
top), Mail loses the accented characters.
This occurs when the file uses code page 850 (the multilingual code page)--
or some other non-ANSI character set--instead of the ANSI code page
character set.
This problem occurs in the US, German, and French versions of Microsoft
Mail. The same thing happens when you run Mail under the French version of
Windows.
CAUSE
Microsoft Mail does not convert a code page to ANSI when inserting text.
Mail assumes that the file uses the ANSI character set because Windows
version 3.1 requires that all text use the ANSI code page character set.
RESOLUTION
Text handled by Microsoft Mail must use the ANSI character set. The active
code page in Windows is always the ANSI code page regardless of the
machine.
| Modification Type: | Major | Last Reviewed: | 11/9/1999 |
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| Keywords: | KB93240 |
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