Re: character encoding

2008. 03. 26, szerda keltezéssel 18.04-kor Bill ezt írta: > Hi Zoltan, > > >> A column in a table has" Brbeuf " in it. (3rd caracter is é) > >> In the body that column shows " Brbeuf " in Windows Outlook. > >> > >> How could I translate to the correct encoding so that accents show > >> correctly > >> in Outlook ? > > > > based on the encoding of your e-mail, my guess is that your data is in > > some ISO-8859-1 encoding or something like that. of course, you should > > verify that first. > > so try to send those emails with that encoding, or what's much better, > > use utf8 for both your data and your email. I think outlook can cope > > with that, though I'm not sure ;) > > The encoding can be set to utf-8 in the recieved email, what translates the > encoding but the sender's outlook window doesn't. > > It's a site where you can ask the owner to upgrade your account limit by > clicking on a mailto link who writes most of the email body. The data used > is your record from a Mysql table. > When you use that link it opens a email window and the body of that message > isn't translated. So the people will see some garbage and may not send the > email. > > If I try to change the encoding in the editing window of Outlook while this > garbaged email shows it doesn't work. I still see the garbage, yet my > outlook is set for utf-8 !! then change the collation of that table to utf8 and store all data in utf8 greets Zoltán Németh > > Bill > > >