I suggest you look into the possible use of Unipad software (

http://www.unipad.org/main/ )  which allows multiple charsets because it uses Unicode to prepare text. Maybe the resulting mixed text file can be inserted into a Pegasus Mail message body, or at least it could be attached.  The receiving user would then need to be using one of the Microsoft Unicode fonts such as Arial Unicode MS, as Pegasus Mail does not yet support full Unicode but only Utf-8 the Asian text might be a problem. 

As for the subject line and the sender's name, this is covered in the Mime RFCs and allows for 8 bit content. See RFC 2047 section "Encoded-word"  http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2047  See pages 6-12  Not an easy read, but it works :-(

Martin 

I am running Pegasus Mail on several computers placed in Denmark and with a Danish keyboard.

In Danish we have three extra letters not found in the English alphabet - and, unhappily, different representations of these letters in different character sets.

 On my default PC, running Pmail version 4.41, I usually have no problems. But my wife's computer, running Pmail version 4.23, don't show the letters correctly, if a received mail was sent with a "wrong" character set.

Both computeres are running Windows XP, and on both the default character set is ISO-8859-1. But the is a difference! On my machine I have a choice in the settings (Tools - Options - Advanced settings) between a lot of character sets, including UTF-8, that is used by some senders. I believe this is the cause of my "no-problems".

On my wife's computer, on the contrary, only the default character set is marked in the box - no alternatives.

Today I tried to solve the problem by upgrading my Wife's copy of Pmail to version .4.63, but nothing changed! Should I have deleted the old program first and installed from scratch? Or have I missed something?

First of all ... the choosen characterset in Advanced Options is for sending mail. It has no effect on reading mail. Nevertheless you should choose UTF-8, because that's the only charcterset to be shure encoding all your danish characters correctly. May be ISO-8859-15 does too - but I'm not shure about.

As long as you send messages with characterset ISO-8859-1, which doesn't cover all danish characters, some letters may be encoded wrong and so will be decoded wrong at the reader's mailclient. In addition be shure to choose fonts for reading mails in both installations of Pegasus, which are capable for unicode-characters.

 I think your wife's new Pegasus is now capable changing the characterset (?), but you changed nothing else.

bye   Olaf

Alas, the character set cannot be changed. I know exactly where it should be done, but no options appear.

On my PC there is a sign \/ on the right side of the option box - and if I click it, a lot of different character definitions appear. Om my wife's PC this sign is missing, and only the default character set is available.

Since I posted my question I have thought about maybe Windows is the "sinner"? But looking int seval help sites for Windows do not reveal the possibility of adding more character sets to my Windows installation.

Don't think it's Windows. The available charactersets are internal to Pegasus. You did an update to PM463 on your wife's PC and the options are still missing ... hmm ... seems there is something disrupted.

I think you should have a backup of your present Pegasus (program and mailbox directory), delete program directory and install PM463 from the scratch (pointing Pegasus to same directory for users).

bye   Olaf

Thank you.

This solved my problem.

But not mine... sadly.

I have two different cases I can't figure out how to solve.

Case 1: I get a letter from Asia (usually Korea or Thailand)

Full of squares. In two different places

a) the name of the sender

b) in the text.

How can I get this to show in the original language? And remember there is also English and sometimes even Danish in the letter that have to stay in odinary text.

Case 2 I would like to be able to write in both Danish/English and in Asian in the same letter. How can this be done? Note I mostly copy the Asian from Google translate.