Character Mapping in XP
Dear [Mentat],
She uses Yahoo mail, and reads her email in Internet Explorer. She uses neither Outlook nor Outlook express, although all these programs likely use the character mapping software components bundled with Windows XP. If there’s a problem in rendering the characters, it could be in these rather than in specific email or browser programs. Then again, it might be that JAWS isn’t translating all the characters correctly. Do you know if JAWS is Unicode-ready? It probably is, since XP itself is. The reason is that the smiley character is a Unicode one and I don’t think it has a corresponding ASCII translation.
I’ve turned off the translation of the smilies. Here’s what an untranslated smiley looks like on the next line…
Tom Hesley