How to setup Forte Agent for KOI8-R

  1. In Options|General Preferences|Languages press Add button, type Russian and press OK button.
  2. In Character Sets choose 
    KOI8 Cyrillic     KOI8-R    878
  3. Set to 7bit/8bit both Usenet Text and Email Text and check in both MIME headers boxes.
  4. In Options|Display Preferences|Fonts choose Russian language and set all fonts to KOI8-R ones (or set Script to KOI8-R if you use GDI.EXE KOI8-R hack).
  5. In Group|Default Properties|Langauge choose Russian or do it separately for each Russian newsgroup using Group|Properties|Language.
  6. When entering New Mail/News message in Russian don't forget to check that Message|Properties|Language is set to Russian, Encoding for main body: is set to 7bit/8bit and Use MIME for non-ASCII headers is checked in. When you not set Russian as default language for Agent, it reset language to English for each new Mail message so you need to fix it each time using Message|Properties|Language.

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