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The character encoding choice will depend on what language you use most
often; different encodings will give you different character repertoires. The
default setting is good for most Western European languages, but other settings
might be needed for languages using different characters.
If you go back to the main Options screen, and pick the Spelling
tab, a button there will take you to the Auto-Correct page:
There are a few items there in the default setup that might put nonstandard
stuff in your messages. It's a good idea to remove the autocorrect items
involving the "TM" sign, curly quotes, dashes, and the ellipsis (...). These
will "autocorrect" the plain-ASCII versions of these things to characters from
the proprietary Windows character set, which, as I discuss in my
character sets
article, are not part of the standard ISO-8859-1 character set. There are
standardized ways to insert them, but I don't particularly trust any program
from Microsoft to use them, and support can be problematic anyway; plain ASCII
is safer.
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