Re: i dont get it?

"KIESEYHOW (K-man)" wrote:
> 
> "jumbled mess" ---> many readers annoyingly remove any "extra" spaces
> and as such you see a jumbled mess.  these "intelligent" readers are
> supposed to clear up the messages but, as you see, you get a reformatted
> message.  As for Outlook Express: there is a way to view any message as
> fixed format, but it only works for that one time viewing, if you change to
> another message you have to do this step again...EXTREMELY ANNOYING I SAY.
> Anyway, open the message then 'VIEW/Text size/Fixed' that should work.
> Interestingly enough, and worth mentioning, if you have mutli-lingual
> applications
> installed in WindowsWhatever you'll also see option for changing the encoding
> there in that menu.  For instance you can choose Western or ISO, or 7 or 8 bit.
> If you don't have this stuff, upgrade to IE 5.5 of some other multi lingual
> software package.
> 

Actually you can change it to always show in fixed text.  I view and
post ASCII art from my machine at home using Outlook Express without any
problems. Tools->Options->Fonts.  Set both Fixed width and proportional
fonts to a fixed width font.  Lucida Console is my chosen one but you
could equally use whatever fixed width font you want to.  I have no
problems viewing messages because if they are actually designed to be
using proportional fonts chances are they use HTML anyway.

Hope this helps,

Phil

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Philip Powell
Help Desk
Computing Services
Coventry University