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Re: URL characters
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lugnet.publish
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Date:
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Sun, 5 Mar 2000 11:32:52 GMT
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sgore@superonline.com(nospam)
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Shiri Dori wrote:
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> In lugnet.publish, Jacob Sparre Andersen writes:
> > [...]"/ño".
> > [...]"ð" ...
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> I'm guessing these are supposed to be letters + tildes on top. Funny thing,
> tho' - on my computer, which has a Hebrew + English system, I see them as
> hebrew letters.
> I've rarely seen that before - I think the only other time was when someone
> sent me email, with one letter that appeared as a hebrew character. OTOH, I
> often get emails that are supposed to be in hebrew but arrive as a mass of
> unrelated characters ([aeiou] with tildes or accent marks).
>
> Not being a *total* math geek (only a partial one ;-) I'm not really sure what
> would cause that. Obviously it has something to do with my system... but what?
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> Any thoughts?
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> -Shiri
No it's not your system..:-) it's just the case of different code pages.
Same extended ASCII codes used for specialized characters of many other
languages at the same time. I mean what you see on the monitor when you
type a special character, say ASCII 135 for example, is completely
depends on which code page is the default one (at your news/mail reader,
at your operating system, or at your keyboards driver, assuming that you
are a MS windows user) when you are looking at the document that
contains this character. If the hebrew support already installed to your
computer, as you mentioned, you can that "mails garbled with special
characters, but supposed to be hebrew" are actually typed in hebrew just
by switching default encoding in your mail reader (i.e. View/Character
set in Netscape -I can't see Hebrew option here..:-( and
View/Encoding/More in MSIE 5.0 -yes I can see Hebrew here..:-)
Selçuk
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