Re: The cent sign

From: Asmus Freytag (asmusf@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Wed Mar 06 2002 - 15:19:51 EST


At 01:20 PM 3/6/02 +0000, Michael Everson wrote:
>I am writing with Eudora version 5.1b16 for Mac OS X, using the Mac Roman
>character set because Eudora doesn't support Unicode. When Eudora sends
>mail, it sends as ISO/IEC 8859-1 so far as I know.

Just don't use characters that aren't in 8859-1, spelling it out as "euro"
would have been fine. As a standards-guy, you should know what's in 8859
and what's not.

>I wonder what Qualcomm is doing about this? It has been suggested that I
>use Apple's Mail program, but I have been using Eudora for years and like
>its functionality.

Eudora is annoyingly behind in dealing with character encodings, even on
Windows.

A./



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