Hi folks,<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Recently, I've been hearing from few of the members
on this list that they've not been able to read most conversations we
exchange here (which happen to be in utf-8 ,&nbsp; unicode
Kannada)&nbsp; and&nbsp; have been seeing some garbage on their&nbsp;
mailboxes. I wonder how many people have been going through this
experience and not even mentioned about it on the list. Maybe that
happens to be the reason for most members here not being active on the
list, as well.<br>
<br>
Hence, I thought of sending this mail with a brief set of instructions
on how to read utf-8 encoded mails. Might serve&nbsp; as helpful piece
of information for many of you.<br>
<br>
First of, for those who use webmail, let me tell you that gmail is your
best option. The Characterset on Gmail is utf-8 by default. Yahoo,
hotmail, rediffmail - all these donot have characterset set to utf-8.
(You'll have to manually change character set to utf-8 on your browser
manually to view the content - same while sending.. which could turn
out to be quite irritating thing to do)<br>
<br>
For those who use standalone mail clients, make sure you've enabled
utf-8 on those. Almost all popular standalone clients support utf-8. On
mail clients like Thunderbird, utf-8 is the charset by default.<br>
<br>
So, the next time you see garbled mail landing to your mailbox from the wikikn-l list, make sure you check for this. <br>
<br>
- h.p.<br>-- <br><a href="http://www.hpnadig.net/blog/">http://www.hpnadig.net/blog/</a> <br><br>&quot;Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.&quot; ~ Erich<br>Fromm