"Montblack" wrote in message
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Tony - Your post triggered M$ Outlook Express 6.0 to prompt:

"To display language characters correctly you need to install the
following
language pack: Chinese Simplified"

Huh???

From his message header:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="gb2312"

"gb2312" is a commonly used Chinese language character set.

Personally, I think it's silly to use a foreign-language character set when
posting in English to a newsgroup that is essentially an English language
newsgroup (the only Chinese in Tony's post was the "wrote in message" part
of the quote). But not all users even comprehend that they are doing
so...often the language settings just default based on the user's global
computer settings, and the user doesn't know enough to override the default.

I'm guessing that's the case here. Hopefully, Tony doesn't actually believe
there's a reason to use Chinese characters in his posts, especially since
the content he's actually writing is in English, obviously targeted at
people who read English.

Pete