[Techtalk] umlauts and email

[EevaJärvinen]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 01:15:06AM +0000, Alvin Goats wrote:
> 
> You may be suffering from systems that use 7 bit encoding instead of 8
> bit. CompuServe has 2 different systems, the ones with "compuserve.com"
> use an older system that is 7 bit based, while those with "csi.com" use
> the newer 8 bit encoding. 

Actually, it's the other people who seem to be "suffering"... My utf-8
encoded mails came back as utf-8 from the linuxchix mail server.

Mutt shows all those strange characters just fine when run in
gnome-terminal.  Xterm shows spaces.  If I hit reply, emacs shows the
characters as I typed them.  Your mail, however, is encoded in
iso-8859-1, and the utf-8 encoded characters are shown as their raw
encodings (because the mail is marked as iso-8859-1 encoded.  Where
does this happen?).

I hope the world will someday go Unicode way.  It'll simplify things
for about the 2 billion people using non-Latin writing systems
(Chinese, Indian devanagari, Arabic, Hebrew, cyrillic, Laotian etc.).



Eeva

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