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From: "Helen Ramsay" <hr@hotmale.com>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british,soc.culture.scottish,soc.culture.welsh,soc.culture.japan,fj.life.in-japan
Subject: Re: Why do British hate american culture?
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"Ryan Ginstrom" <ginstrom@hotmail.com> wrote
> "Madra Dubh" <ccaine@worldnet.att.net> wrote
> > "Ryan Ginstrom" <ginstrom@hotmail.com> wrote
> > > Madra, does that answer your filthy rich question?

> > Indeed it does and here's another.
> > Why, since you guys are posting away in English, does my computer keep
> > asking me to install some Japanese character set.

See my suggestion upthread.

> Ah yes, well that's my fault actually. My email program sets the encoding
to
> Japanese by default, even if the text contains only English.
>
> This particular post should not cause that prompt.

You're right there Ryan :) I also use OE and WinXP and it doesn't generate
that message on either my desktop or my laptop.

Cheers,  Helen
hramsay at cogeco dot ca