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Re: A Change
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Thu, 8 May 2003 21:56:19 GMT
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(mattdm@mattdm.org)saynotospam()
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Richard Noeckel <Shroud_of_kung_fu@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I'm using the ISO-8859-1 (Latin 1) superset; and I bet that every
> newsreader written or updated in the last five years can handle that too.
> But usually only Windows machines can handle the additional characters in
> Codepage 1252.
How should anything know that your message is using this "codepage 1252"?
The message headers specify that you're using the standard iso-8859-1
charset -- but you're not. You've got a bunch of characters using mappings
that are reserved for control characters. How is someone else's application
supposed to know that you're not following the standard you claim you are?
> Seriously, it isn't easy to know which special characters will be readable by
> nearly everyone if you or your localization knows how to generate those
> characters (e.g. 'Milton Train Works™' can't be read by everyone, while '1.0
> ± 0.2' should be fine.)
It's simple -- just use the standard, and then everything which complies
with the standard will work.
--
Matthew Miller mattdm@mattdm.org <http://www.mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
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