Legal/Permission Question

[Davidl]

:o
Sorry for the wrong encoding which brings you guys so many troubles.
And I now set my encode-set to UTF-8.
Hope now every one is happy :p

> David B. Held wrote:
>> If I had to guess, I would say that English is not his first language.  
>> This is typically given away by the non-standard font.  If you look at  
>> the domain of his email address, you might get an idea where he's  
>> coming from: http://126.com/
>
> Actually, he doesn't use a non-standard font. His header doesn't specify  
> the font in any way except in that he uses charset=gbk, which my  
> Thunderbird tells me means the message encoding is "Chinese Simplified  
> (GBK)".
> The non-standard font you're seeing is probably the same thing I had the  
> first couple of times I read his posts: Thunderbird has separate font  
> settings for Western/Simplified Chinese/Japanese/Hebrew and lots of  
> others. So the font may already be the same in other newsgroup clients.
> Anyway, if it annoys you as much as it annoyed me, you can set your  
> Simplified Chinese fonts to the same as Western in the preferences[1]  
> (fixed it for me).
>
>
> [1]: Edit -> Preferences -> Display -> tab Fonts -> button "Fonts..."  
> (on my Linux box, IIRC there may be a different place for the  
> preferences dialog on Windows)