Re: Greek to you and to me as well

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Posted by stephenz
2005-03-15 10:21:58

> The latest software that failed my expectations is Zoot, which quite simply refuses to display Greek characters instead of gibberish, even though the Greek script of fonts is selected by default. I imagine it’s got something to do with it being a 16-bit application, but others of the same gender work OK.

Alexander,

Someone on the Zoot forum was just talking about how he was able to get Zoot to work fine with Japanese characters. I don’t know if you’d expect Zoot to work any differently with Japanese than with Greek…

Here is what he wrote:

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I saw the accents I use in french change into ideograms… so I went in the customize panel and changed the font to ms gothic, then I saw I could choose an encoding so I chose japanese…. and then I was writing items subjects and body in japanese in zoot. Was I dreaming????? Then I tried to make a query…. AND IT WORKED!!!!!!!!! Of course the quick query pop up displays unreadable stuff but the query is RIGHT!!!! (when we save and look the items in a folder).

This is a revolution for me, I will at last be able to gather everything in zoot, all my mails of different languagues!!!!

A little request would be to allow a different customization for each database, so I could gather my japanese mails in a dedicated database and don’t suffer from the changing of french characters!

[in a second note he wrote:]
In fact nothing has been changed in zoot, I just happened to use a japanese computer.

So I tried to tweak mine, and went to the linguistic parameters of XP, switched everything to japanese and oooh miracle, I was able to use japanese in Zoot.

Well, I should have tried this earlier. Sorry to have polluted the forum, but at least I got the solution and it could be useful to other people who won’t have to wait for some coincidence to find the trick.

good zoot!
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I have no idea if his situation has any application to yours or not, but thought I’d send it along in case it does.

Steve Z.

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