> "D. Spencer Hines" excelsior.com> wrote in message
> news:%%23cHVAcsEJHA.4260@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

>> Will WLM and Outlook allow me to SEND Russian messages, using the
>> Cyrillic alphabet...

>
> Outlook lets one define the language of a selection, like any Office
> application can do. In Outlook 2007, Message, Spelling, Set
> Language... set the language of a selection to whichever language
> you like. You can do this in the Subject: line also. If you want
> proofing capabilities in that language, download an appropriate
> Office Language Pack from the Office web site. If you write a lot
> in Russian, you will want the Russian Language Pack anyway. You can
> even change the menu language to Russian, if you like. You probably
> want your readers to interpret your messages properly, so if you
> send multi-language messages well then make sure they have a client
> that can display them properly.
>
> WLM is a little different, but experiment with the New Message,
> Format, Encoding menu. Set the encoding to one of the Cyrillic
> values. I don't know how it works, but since the menu item is
> there, it must do something... Remember the beta nature of WLM.

>>
>> Both in the Subject Line and in the body of the message?

>
> I believe that if you set the encoding in WLM to a particular value,
> all human readable headers are encoded in that character set, but
> there may be bugs...
>
> I have set the language of the Subject: line in Outlook, but because
> I don't have a non-Latin alphabet input method or font installed, I
> can't test it myself, to see if it actually formats the text as
> Russian text, for example.
>

>> I can currently READ such messages but not SEND them.
>>
>> How to do that, while not screwing up my English reading and
>> sending capabilities?

>
> Language is Outlook is per selection. Character encoding in WLM is
> per message. Using either one to format and send a message in
> Russian "shouldn't" interfere with your ability to read and write
> English.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Earle
>

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