From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Wed Mar 16 2005 - 04:18:22 CST
On 16/03/2005 01:28, Donald Z. Osborn wrote:
>...
>
>This experience seems to say that we're a long way from where we'd like to be
>(and where I thought we already were) with regard to weblication of and the
>ability to share text with the most common West European accented characters.
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>
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I have recently noted problems even with Thunderbird in that it does not
always properly indicate the encoding of e-mails sent with it. I have
received e-mails containing Hebrew from Thunderbird users whose systems
are set up with the Hebrew code page, and the e-mails have been sent out
with Hebrew code page (Windows-1255 or similar) encoded characters but
no character set specified. And so my Windows-1252 system displays
accented Latin characters instead of Hebrew. Now I might expect this
behaviour (although formally incorrect) from an old pre-Unicode system,
but not from the newly released Thunderbird - which I would expect to
always indicate a character set, at least if there is anything outside
the ASCII range. So, yes, we have a long way to go!
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