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<DIV><SPAN class=400535921-27092004><FONT face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック" color=#0000ff size=2>I
use a Japanese OS, I was once asked to be careful about my settings as one of my
e-mails caused somebody's e-mail application to prompt them to download Japanese
characters. (I didn't use any Japanese, but something in there must have been
encoded as such.)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=400535921-27092004><FONT face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック" color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=400535921-27092004><FONT face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック" color=#0000ff
size=2>It's only happened once, though.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=400535921-27092004><FONT face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック" color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=400535921-27092004><FONT face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック" color=#0000ff
size=2>On the other hand, some of those tilded letters came through as Chinese
characters on my system :)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=400535921-27092004><FONT face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック" color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=400535921-27092004><FONT face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック" color=#0000ff
size=2>BB</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=ja dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Koontz John E
[mailto:john.koontz@colorado.edu] <BR><BR></FONT></DIV><TT>On Mon, 27 Sep
2004, Peter Kirk wrote:<BR>> Ken, I wonder if you have ever thought that it
might be offensive to<BR>> others on an international list to insist that
they write their own<BR>> languages, not properly with the international
standard code which<BR>> supports them, but in a form mangled to fit an
American code, ASCII?<BR><BR>For my own part, I carefully didn't insist, but
only pointed out my<BR>difficulties. I did consider that it might be
offensive and thought<BR>people would be likely to be understanding. In
the case in<BR>question I thought it fairly likely that the unusual character
set in<BR>question was not the native character set of the user, but an exotic
one<BR>calculated to represent that language of the example. In general
it is<BR>easy enought to deduce what is happening in the case of the more
common<BR>international sets, and I can and do live with that. I suspect
my "ASCII"<BR>punctuation must sometimes look similarly odd at the receiving
end.<BR><BR>Note that I said ASCII, but meant whatever ISO set the University
Unix<BR>system and pine have selected between them. Email standards are
really<BR>not particularly well adapted to advanced character set usages as
yet, but<BR>I believe ISO standards have supeceded ASCII standards
essentially<BR>everywhere. For example, the a-acute and n-tilde of Ken's
Ibanez example<BR>came through intact.</TT></BLOCKQUOTE><!-- |**|end egp html banner|**| -->
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