PS: even when setting to chinese that still doesn't help me read chinese. I
did switch to the format you said to tryout. It did show the chinese
characters. But didn't help me figure out what it said.

If you want a language useful you should switch and be able to see the
english translation. I'm not a Rhodes Scholar, or an MIT type that knows how
to read every language in the world. <grin>

"Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T." wrote:
>
> Mozilla/Communicator/Thunderbird have 8859-1 set as default though all are
> capable viewing any of th "ese's" and Moz/Tbird are capable of UNICODE in
> OSX. The reason for setting 8859-1 as default is that 99.999% of Email
> newsgroup traffic is english (americam British, Austrailian aware. I've been
> an internet user about 10 years starting with buliten Boards and 300 baud
> modems. And in all thouse years I've probably run across 20 messages that
> were of the "ese" variety. more than half were spam, often judging from the
> included pictures probably porn.
>
> So the the idea its a defect of a particular browser is nonsense.
>
> I refuse to use Entourage/OE/IE due to all the back door weaknesses for key
> loggers/spyware/adware and the use of ActiveX which the way MS implimentsit
> is far more dangerous than Java ever was. And the fact I like the outline
> type system that Mozilla products use for Email newsgroups.
>
> Paul Berkowitz wrote:
> >
> > Try setting Format/Character Set to Simplified Chinese (GB-2312) in an email
> > app that can do it, like Entourage. Your Mozilla client sent it back
> > erroneously as IS) 8859-1, which it isn't. Entourage would have been able to
> > read the original in "Automatic" and would have known to reply in either
> > GB-2312 or in UTF-8, which would be fine. I never saw the original, but if
> > you read John's reply in Mozilla, it ought to hav e been OK if he sent it
> > from Entourage, as he usually does, and your reader (Mozilla, or whatever
> > variety you have) would be at fault.
> >
> > --
> > Paul Berkowitz
> > MVP Entourage
> > Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html>
> > AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>
> >
> > Please "Reply To Newsgroup" to reply to this message. Emails will be
> > ignored.
> >
> > PLEASE always state which version of Entourage you are using - 2001 or X.
> > It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise.
> >
> > > From: "Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T." <pjones1@kimbanet.com>
> > > Organization: VPEA
> > > Reply-To: <pjones1@kimbanet.com>
> > > Newsgroups:
> > > microsoft.public.mac.office.word,microsoft.public. word.conversions,microsoft.p
> > > ublic.jp.officexp.word
> > > Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 21:17:56 -0400
> > > Subject: Re: How to make Word for Mac recognize templates generated onWord
> > > 2003 for Windows
> > >
> > > Looks more like greek to me
> > >
> > > "John McGhie [MVP - Word]" wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Sorry Wangtao:
> > >>
> > >> We can't read Chinese here, and we know nothing about Windows XP. This is a
> > >> Macintosh-platform group conducted in English. Maybe someone in the
> > >> Japanese group can help?
> > >>
> > >> Cheers
> > >>
> > >> This responds to article <#UDXQP4HEHA.2556@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl>, from
> > >> "wangtao" <wangtao1986@hotmail.com> on 11/4/04 3:13 PM:
> > >>
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> > >>
> > >> --
> > >>
> > >> Please respond only to the newsgroup to preserve the thread.
> > >>
> > >> John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer,
> > >> McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
> > >> Sydney, Australia. GMT + 10 Hrs
> > >> +61 4 1209 1410, mailto:john@mcghie.name
> > >
> > > --
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