Unicode is the "modern" way. Western sort of dates to Windows 95 and it's ANSI code pages. There should never be a time when a non Unicode setting is appropriate, but the internet is full of luddites, and not all of them a individuals. There are many corporations that apparently have simply not made the leap to Unicode that Windows did with Windows 95.

Personally I never fiddle with the setting unless I have concrete evidence I am sending mail to one of the luddites. To be honest, I would generally rather find a new correspondent on most occasions as still using ANSI code pages says a lot about the firm or individual.

Unicode is the "modern" way. Western sort of dates to Windows 95 and it's ANSI code pages. There should never be a time when a non Unicode setting is appropriate, but the internet is full of luddites, and not all of them a individuals. There are many corporations that apparently have simply not made the leap to Unicode that Windows did with Windows 95. Personally I never fiddle with the setting unless I have concrete evidence I am sending mail to one of the luddites. To be honest, I would generally rather find a new correspondent on most occasions as still using ANSI code pages says a lot about the firm or individual.

Thanks for reply. I noticed last night on my wife's Laptop (running a much newer version of TBird than my Laptop) that her's doesn't even show a choice, rather the menu drop down just shows an option to Repair text encoding.

Also noticed her Options or Settings no longer have the old interface I'm used to and it's more like Firefox's interface with some stuff not available at all with going into config editor (which at least it did still have).