[Zerosum]

Thanks for the reply.

That makes sense, and it would seem to imply that my Chinese friend can read
these srt files opend directly in Notepad on his system because Notepad in a
Chinese XP OS has the native ability to read a greater variety of encodings
than Notepad on an English XP OS that has had Chinese language support
enabled via Regional and Language Options.

I assume this is also the reason why some of the Chinese language emails I
receive are gibberish; i.e, that email was encoded with something other than
unicode.

"grammatim" wrote:

Within Chinese support, there are different "encodings" of the
characters -- just as some "encodings" let you see accented letters in
email and others don't. The sender and receiver have to have their
systems set to the same "encoding." These days, Unicode is becoming
the world-wide standard, but older CJK systems (perhaps especially
ones from Hong Kong) may still use older encodings. Somewhere in your
downloading setup there's a place to specify the encoding used in any
particular message (but that's not a Word matter).