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Re: Non ISO charaters (was Re: Community Policing is a Good Thing(TM) (Was: Re: Do you think there i
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 25 Jan 2002 15:07:54 GMT
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"Matthew Gerber" <matthew@digitaliris.com> writes:
> Hee-hee...no offense taken! I understand, 'cuz here's what your
> mail link looks like on my Macintosh: Fredrik
> =?iso-8859-1?q?Gl=F6ckner?= <fredrik.glockner@bio.uio.no>
This is an RFC2047 encoded header, which is the preferred way to
transfer 8-bit characters in header fields. RFC2047 dates to 1996,
and should be implemented in most user agents. It has not been
implemented in the LUGNET web interface?
It is probably the small number of people using non 7-bit characters
which makes this a not too important issue on LUGNET.
> The idea is good though, or something in the vein of the global
> allowable characters that many forums use might work (a shortcut
> list of symbols that folks could cut and past out of...they'd look
> the same to everyone that way).
LUGNET claims to be an international discussion board, so it may be a
good idea to implement features to make international characters
easier to use. I don't view this a big problem, though, as anybody
posting and reading with news agents can simply specify their
character set at will.
One of these days, I'll try to post on the test group with Japanese or
Korean characters. I'm guessing it will still look bad in the web
interface, though.
Fredrik
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