Re: foreign languages, email, webcat

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1998


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 17367
interpreted = N
texte = Thanks for the reply! I found the table in BBedit. Do I just convert all the $ to % ?But now I'm a bit perplexed by the special conversions.db and MIME conversion. I read in the HTML docs about how we can use MIME to grab the language information. Should I be grabbing this from the shopper and then setting the MIME header for email and display of invoice pages, etc., with the foreign languages? Do you have an example of what it looks like?Thanks!Sandy>>My client has many customers that are from overseas and use different >>characters. For Scandinavian, Latin American, and some other >>non-English regions, we get squares showing up in the email and in the >>order files. >> >>Does anyone have a list of these non-English characters for European >>languages? (Swedish, French, Spanish, Dutch come to mind as most frequent >>occurrences). > >There's an ASCII table in BBEdit you can look at. > >>Do I have to use >> >>[ConvertChars db=MyConversions.db]...[/ConvertChars] >> >>for each input field in the address/name field or is there a way to >>universally apply conversions.db to all fields? > >You can convert the whole message. Use MIME conversion in a special >conversions.db. > > ************************************************************* > Christer Olsson Stora Nygatan 21 Phone +46 40 791 50 > Art director S-211 37 Malmoe Fax +46 40 97 99 77 > Ljusa Ideer AB Sweden http://www.ljusaideer.se > > > Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: foreign languages, email, webcat (Christer Olsson 1998)
  2. Re: foreign languages, email, webcat (Sandra L. Pitner 1998)
  3. Re: foreign languages, email, webcat (Christer Olsson 1998)
  4. Re: foreign languages, email, webcat (PCS Technical Support 1998)
  5. foreign languages, email, webcat (Sandra L. Pitner 1998)
Thanks for the reply! I found the table in BBedit. Do I just convert all the $ to % ?But now I'm a bit perplexed by the special conversions.db and MIME conversion. I read in the HTML docs about how we can use MIME to grab the language information. Should I be grabbing this from the shopper and then setting the MIME header for email and display of invoice pages, etc., with the foreign languages? Do you have an example of what it looks like?Thanks!Sandy>>My client has many customers that are from overseas and use different >>characters. For Scandinavian, Latin American, and some other >>non-English regions, we get squares showing up in the email and in the >>order files. >> >>Does anyone have a list of these non-English characters for European >>languages? (Swedish, French, Spanish, Dutch come to mind as most frequent >>occurrences). > >There's an ASCII table in BBEdit you can look at. > >>Do I have to use >> >>[ConvertChars db=MyConversions.db]...[/ConvertChars] >> >>for each input field in the address/name field or is there a way to >>universally apply conversions.db to all fields? > >You can convert the whole message. Use MIME conversion in a special >conversions.db. > > ************************************************************* > Christer Olsson Stora Nygatan 21 Phone +46 40 791 50 > Art director S-211 37 Malmoe Fax +46 40 97 99 77 > Ljusa Ideer AB Sweden http://www.ljusaideer.se > > > Sandra L. Pitner

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