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Tech Tip: Proper display of umlauts in POP mail
PRODUCT: 4D | VERSION: 2004 | PLATFORM: Mac & Win
Published On: June 29, 2006

When using umlauts with the POP 4DIC commands, ISO parsing must be turned on to properly display umlaut characters. For example, a downloaded e-mail without the ISO parsing will display "ümläut tést" as "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=FCml=E4ut_t=E9st?=".

To turn on the ISO parsing, use the following command before downloading the POP messages:

$error_i:=POP3_Charset (1;1)   ` Handles ISO-8859 encoded messages.