cacha?a and OFF TOPIC

[A. Vine]

Grant Barrett wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, March 7, 2000, Kathleen Miller <millerk at NYTIMES.COM> wrote:
> >Sorry - it came out fine on my end.
> >Cacha (c cedilla) a
> >and
> >caipir (i acute) ssima
>
> Mark, you gotta get your tech people to get you off Lotus Notes. Even the free email
> programs usually handle special characters well. Or see if you can adjust the
> default character reading and sending to something other than US-ASCII.
>

Well, the characters don't come out fine on Netscape Messenger on my Unix box
running in a French locale.  My suspicion is that the characters are either not
proper ISO-8859-1 (aka extended ASCII or ANSI) or are mangled by the list
mailer. I am curious to know if all of the folks who see these characters
correctly are using Macs - ?