[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] encoding/diacritics

[marmel]

Thanks everyone for all the suggestions!  I have made sure my endoding is 
set to Unicode (UTF-8), but I am still unable to read past posts with the 
diactrics.  The character encoding in Windows Mail under 'Format/Encoding' 
gives me 30 options, and I've tried opening with 11 different of those 
encoding options, but all I can still see is ??? for diacritics.  Sorry to 
trouble you, but am I the only one having this problem?

My interent provider is a private telephone company (since I live in a 
remote, rural area without access to the big internet provides), so maybe 
that is the problem?  Wish I was a computer geek to figure this all out, 
sigh.

Linda in Wisconsin

> b.    Character encoding: This might be a little harder but if your
> computer isn't set to read the foreign characters you won't be able
> to. In my email client (Thunderbird) under Options/Character Encoding
> I can choose among a list of about 25-30 different character sets from
> Arabic to Vietnamese...plus a couple of "Western".
>
> Ken