Hi folks,
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 , unicode Kannada) and have been seeing some garbage on their 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.
Hence, I thought of sending this mail with a brief set of instructions on how to read utf-8 encoded mails. Might serve as helpful piece of information for many of you.
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)
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.
So, the next time you see garbled mail landing to your mailbox from the wikikn-l list, make sure you check for this.
- h.p.
One important thing-
To read Kannada Unicode email (UTF-8 or any other formats of Unicode, say UTF-16) the requirements are-
1. Unicode enabled OS like Windows XP, 2003 –need to enable Kannada in these OS OR Linux with Kannada enabled
2. Opentype font installed in the system. In Windows XP and 2003, by enabling Kannada, the Kannada opentype font Tunga gets installed. In Linux, you need to do this manually.
Details for Windows XP are available at http://www.bhashaindia.com/Patrons/Kannada/kannadaonwindows.htm
Details for Linux are available at http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Kannada_Support (this site also has details for Baraha, Nudi, Win XP, etc)
sigONa,
Pavanaja
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Dr. U.B. Pavanaja CEO, Vishva Kannada Softech http://www.vishvakannada.com/ 91-80-23309693, 91-9341980400 Think Globally, Act locally
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From: wikikn-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org [mailto:wikikn-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Hari Prasad Nadig Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2005 12:52 PM To: wikikn-l@wikipedia.org Subject: [Wikikn-l (kannada wikipedia)] UTF-8 and email
Hi folks,
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 , unicode Kannada) and have been seeing some garbage on their 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.
Hence, I thought of sending this mail with a brief set of instructions on how to read utf-8 encoded mails. Might serve as helpful piece of information for many of you.
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)
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.
So, the next time you see garbled mail landing to your mailbox from the wikikn-l list, make sure you check for this.
- h.p.
On 7/24/05, Hari Prasad Nadig hpnadig@gmail.com wrote:
Hi folks,
Recently, I've been hearing from few of the members on this list thatthey've not been able to read most conversations we exchange here (which happen to be in utf-8 , unicode Kannada) and have been seeing some garbage on their mailboxes.
I use gmail, so I've not had those problems, but for those that have, it might be useful to add the information on how they can view UTF-8 mails on the list information page at http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikikn-l, especially for any future subscribers who won't have seen the instructions on this list.
Angela.
good idea, I've updated it :)
On 7/24/05, Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/24/05, Hari Prasad Nadig hpnadig@gmail.com wrote:
Hi folks,
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 , unicode Kannada) and have been seeing some garbage on their mailboxes.
I use gmail, so I've not had those problems, but for those that have, it might be useful to add the information on how they can view UTF-8 mails on the list information page at http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikikn-l, especially for any future subscribers who won't have seen the instructions on this list.
Angela.