HOW TO SEND (& READ) UNICODE E-MAIL IN THE OUTLOOK EXPRESS

Tools-Options-Send
----- Mail Sending should be “Plain Text”
----- Mail Sending Plain Text Settings-MIME Message Format-Encode Text Using “None”
----- (Optionally, remove the checkmark from the box labelled “Reply to messages using the format in which they are sent”.)

Tools-Options-Read
----- Fonts-“Unicode”
----- Unicode Encoding - “Unicode (UTF-8)”
------------ then, “Set As Default”
----- (Select the Unicode font(s) desired for the ‘Proportional Font’ and the ‘Fixed-width font’)

Many thanks to Ronald Ogawa for his help in figuring this out and testing e-mail transmissions.

So far, the only way we’ve discovered to get the Unicode characters into the e-mail message is to copy & paste from an application (like a web browser or Unicode editor) which supports display of Unicode material.

Bjondi’s Character Agent provides a method of doing this, just like the Character Map Windows feature, except Bjondi’s Character Agent works with Unicode fonts.

Bjondi is back on-line after a brief absence. Their website is at http://www.bjondi.com/ . This fine product is freeware and available for download.