On 2010-05-13 10:45, Stan Brown wrote:
Thu, 13 May 2010 08:56:59 +1000 from Peter Moylan... Some text in English and Russian
<gro.nalyomp@retep>:
Aleksej Saushev wrote:
It seems other people can see actual text -- all I see is a series of question marks. It may be my newsreader, which occasionally shows
its age.
Aleksej's post has Mime headers:
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
The followups respected that.
Your reader is apparently unable to cope, since it uses 7bit us-ascii. I suggest you try Thunderbird, for example.
(followups to alt.usenet.offline-reader only)
(followups to alt.usenet.offline-reader only)--
Thu, 13 May 2010 16:47:16 +0200 from Lars Enderin
<lars.enderin@telia.com>:
On 2010-05-13 10:45, Stan Brown wrote:
Thu, 13 May 2010 08:56:59 +1000 from Peter Moylan... Some text in English and Russian
<gro.nalyomp@retep>:
Aleksej Saushev wrote:
It seems other people can see actual text -- all I see is a series of question marks. It may be my newsreader, which occasionally shows
its age.
Aleksej's post has Mime headers:
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
The followups respected that.
Your reader is apparently unable to cope, since it uses 7bit us-ascii. I suggest you try Thunderbird, for example.
I have Gravity 2.8.1. Can I change some settings so that it will be
able to display those characters properly? I looked in View + Global Options but couldn't find anything that seemed relevant.
Reposted with a more appropriate subject line...
Thu, 13 May 2010 17:21:25 -0400 from Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm>:
(followups to alt.usenet.offline-reader only)
Thu, 13 May 2010 16:47:16 +0200 from Lars Enderin <lars.enderin@telia.com>:
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
The followups respected that.
Your reader is apparently unable to cope, since it uses 7bit us-ascii. I suggest you try Thunderbird, for example.
I have Gravity 2.8.1. Can I change some settings so that it will be
able to display those characters properly? I looked in View + Global Options but couldn't find anything that seemed relevant.
Stan Brown wrote in "alt.usenet.offline-reader" ...will be
I have Gravity 2.8.1. Can I change some settings so that it
able to display those characters properly? I looked in View + Global Options but couldn't find anything that seemed relevant.
I doubt it. There are other things to try like "Article - Character
Coding" or setting the script on the Body font. But I could not get
rid of the question marks. I think it depends on the Windows
regional settings and if your font has those chars. I tried with a
Unicode font and could not get it.
I can't even tell if !theBat, which handles char sets well,
displays it correctly. One reason is I can't read KOI!
Sat, 15 May 2010 13:36:25 -0400 from Tom B. <nfn03862@naples.net>:
Stan Brown wrote in "alt.usenet.offline-reader" ...will be
I have Gravity 2.8.1. Can I change some settings so that it
able to display those characters properly? I looked in View + Global Options but couldn't find anything that seemed relevant.
I doubt it. [snip]
Thanks, Tom. I'm reaching the breaking point with Gravity, I fear.
The business of not displaying characters correctly (and I know this
is Gravity, because everyone else in the thread could see the
Cyrillic characters) is just an occasional annoyance. But the many- times-a-day annoyance is breaking quoted lines, both in followups
(see above) and in "Article + Forward via mail". I don't know if that
was introduced in 2.8.1 or earlier, but it was not part of 2.6.
Oh yeah -- and the spell checker that won't let me enter a corrected spelling, so I have to quit spell check, find the misspelled word
(because spell check moves the cursor far away from it), fix it, and
then restart spell checker from the beginning (because here's no
option to start from the current point). The old spell checker
didn't have those issues, and surely they're not that hard to fix?
Stan Brown wrote in "alt.usenet.offline-reader" ...
Oh yeah -- and the spell checker that won't let me enter a corrected spelling, so I have to quit spell check, find the misspelled word
(because spell check moves the cursor far away from it), fix it, and
then restart spell checker from the beginning (because here's no
option to start from the current point). The old spell checker
didn't have those issues, and surely they're not that hard to fix?
In the newer 2.9 versions, you can enter a corrected word. The
newer ones also use Hunspell with Open Office compatible
dictionaries. Much nicer.
The install for 2.9.x is different to come up to speed with Vista
and Win 7. I.e., your data does in the USER app data so you can
have multiple users with their own settings while the common
executable stuff stays in Program Files. You can keep 2.8 and have
2.9 both. I had both for a while but gave up 2.8 - it is too old.
The editor had some minor tweaking but nothing major.
Alzheimers - yeah some of the code goes back to 1995/96
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