Hindi font Mangal does not display but other languages do.

[Guest]

I get small translations by email. I can read text in Arabic & Hebrew no
problems but when I am sent attachments in Hindi/Sanskrit > Mangal font they
wont display properly, I just see stuff like `$0`$&`% `$'`$> `$.`$.`%

I am having to get the Hindi emails sent to Gmail where I can view/see the
translations through my browser so I am getting by. The attachments are .txt
files and whether they are sent by email or by attachment I cant read it,

Must be a setting somewhere but I have tried everything I can find, any ideas?

 

[Pat Willener]

TXT files are not the best way of keeping text that is not ASCII or
ISO-8859-1 encoded. You cannot specify an encoding for a text file, nor
can you specify a font.

If you use Notepad, you can try to save the file with an encoding of
UTF-8; this *may* preserve your data. A safer way is to use Word and
save it as a DOC file.

 

[Guest]

I understand that, I can't change the way the file is changed and sent to me
unfortunately. I can access the file through Gmail and get it that way so I
would have thought that I should be able to do it through Outlook.

 

[Pat Willener]

I see. This is not Outlook's doing, but the way a TXT file is opened
under Windows (Notepad). You could try to open the file with another
application, e.g. Word or Internet Explorer, and then adjust the
encoding, if the text still does not display properly.

TXT files are originally single-byte character text files. Notepad is
unable to handle multi-byte data, except in language-specific
environments, e.g. Japanese Windows. If you are on English Windows, you
need different applications to render multi-byte data correctly.