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mm

On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 05:09:10 -0500, wrote:

On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:34:47 -0400, mm
wrote:

What do you mean by blocking non-English fonts? What does that do?

It means that he doesn't see them. Out of sight, out of mind. Same
thing as a kill file for specific submitters, just a little more
generic. Not a bad idea either.

While I did sort of figure it was spam, I cant understand this foreign
font thing. I dont have any of them installed, but I still see these
posts on the newsgroups and there is no way to filter them that I can
think of.

Not in version 2 of Agent, which is what I use too, I think. Maybe in
a later version (it had been requested iirc) and in OE and Outlook, I
think. I'm happy with Agent and I'll stick with Agent. In fact,
these are easier to filter out manually than the spam that is in
English, and nothing they say can annoy me because I can't read it.

But as another reply person said, this is upper ascii. That
I know because I have used character map. How anyone can read this
sort of stuff amazes me.

Because there are so many Chinese and Korean (and Japanese)
characters, they have to use uni-code, that takes two bytes for each
character, instead of one.

You can install more languages for Agent, using General
Prefences/Languages/Add Language, but especially with version 2, you
may have to first go to the forte agent site to find them. Or better
yet, ask on the Agent newsgroups, there are two of them. There are
quite a few features that were written by people who don't work for
the company and they are all available for download on a non-company
webpage. One is as simple as allowing one to order the subscribed
groups any way he wants, and I forget what the others are. One was a
way to go straight to the groups.google webpage that includes the post
one is looking at. It was written for dejanews and updated.

They list a couple unicode fonts utf-8 and utf-7 in several of the
drop-down menus below that, but I don't know how any of that works,
and the newsgroups I read are all in English.

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