Re: Usage of CP1252 characters on www.msnbc.com

From: Yung-Fong Tang (ftang@netscape.com)
Date: Fri Jul 11 1997 - 19:08:59 EDT


Unicode Discussion wrote:

> Unicode Discussion wrote:
>
> > >Speaking of this, I just tried composing a message with NS
> > Communicator
> > >with some interesting characters in it, setting the encoding on the
>
> > >message to UTF-8.
> > >
> > >Examples:
> > >
> > >Punctuation: +IBw-What?+IB0gFSAY-Huh+IBk-
> >
> > Either Communicator has a bug or you selected UTF-7...
> >
> > David Goldsmith
> > Architect
> > International, Text, and Graphics Group
> > Apple Computer, Inc.
> > goldsmith@apple.com
>
> You're right. I believe that NSC has a bug in it; it seems to result
> in
> UTF-7, even though I selected UTF-8.

No, this is not really a bug. We simply don't allow you send out email
in certain encoding. We always convert UTF8 back to UTF7 when we send
out email. We should probably take out (or grey out some item ) in the
encoding menu when user do mail composition.

>
>
> Mark
> +MAA-
>
>
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>
> Davis, Mark
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