Handling Character Sets in E-mail Messages
A Character Set (or charset as it is commonly known) is a standard collection of characters and their character codes. A Character Set may include letters, digits, punctuation, control codes, graphics, mathematical symbols, and other signs. Each character in the set is represented by a unique character code, which is a binary number used for storage and transmission.
When an e-mail message is sent, the Mail Client associates a Character Set with it. However, some Mail Clients do not associate relevant Character Sets with the e-mail messages. Therefore, if an incoming e-mail message contains a corrupt or wrong Character Set, junk characters are displayed. Users can set the Character Set for such Messages from the Inbox Workspace or the relevant Message window.
Character Sets supported by Talisma are:
• Arabic (DOS)
• Arabic (ISO)
• Arabic (Windows)
• Baltic (ISO)
• Baltic (Windows)
• Central European (ISO)
• Central European (Windows)
• Chinese Simplified (GB2312)
• Chinese Simplified (HZ)
• Chinese Traditional (Big5)
• Cyrillic (ISO)
• Cyrillic (KOI8-R)
• Cyrillic (KOI8-U)
• Cyrillic (Windows)
• Greek (ISO)
• Greek (Windows)
• Hebrew (DOS)
• Hebrew (ISO-Logical)
• Hebrew (Windows)
• Japanese (EUC)
• Japanese (JIS)
• Japanese (Shift-JIS)
• Korean
• Korean (ISO)
• Latin 3 (ISO)
• Thai (Windows)
• Turkish (Windows)
• Unicode (UTF-7)
• Unicode (UTF-8)
• Vietnamese (Windows)
• Western European
Note Although Talisma supports Character Sets in several languages, when selecting a Character Set for a Message, a Client User can only choose a language supported by the operating system on the User’s computer. |