Re: Notes on Tam Wing Kwong, "The Game of Sparrow as played in China".

"Julian Bradfield" <jcb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:e6c3c0nwrtr.fsf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> "Tom Sloper" <tomster@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>
>>> Pity that your newsreader doesn't then tell us that your article is in
>>> Big5 - I had to switch manually to Big5 viewing. Still, what can one
>>> expect from Outlook?
>
>> I use Outlook Express, which has been set to Japanese as a default. I
was
>
> Yes, well, it doesn't tell us your posts are in Japanese, either!
> (A newsreader should add a header to the article saying what encoding
> it is in. For example, it you look at the headers of my Tam post,
> you'll see
> Content-type: text/plain; charset=Big5
> However, OE seems not to do this.)
>

I also use Outlook Express. When editing, from the menu bar select Format
> 
Encoding > select the charset. This shall preserve the characters.

Cofa Tsui
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