LL-L "Technica" 2009.08.18 (01) [EN]

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From: tighe <tighe at sympatico.ca> Subject: LL-L "Technica" 2009.08.17 (01)
[EN]

Hi Folk:
I think I had a similar problem with XP, but it cleared  up. The result of
software upgrades, and patches. Sorry, can not be more specific.
Regards
Gerald Tighe

 From: ds <dstokely at infionline.net>
Subject: LL-L "Technica"
I don't think you can blame Apple, Luc.  I've had the same problem for a long
time and have resigned myself to live with it.  You've described my
problem exactly. and I have Windows XP.
I've tried to adjust and change my settings every which way to no avail.  If it
gets fixed I'll be quite happy.
David Stokely Elkhart, Indiana
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Date:    Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:22:57 -0700 From:    Lowlands-L List <
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Subject: LL-L "Technica" 2009.08.14 (01) [EN]
From: Hellinckx Luc <luc.hellinckx at gmail.com> Subject: LL-L "Technica"
Beste Lowlanders,
I wonder if any of you on OS X (Apple) and using Mail.app as a client are
still experiencing encoding problems.
No matter what I do, on my system every diacritic remains unreadable, the
problem has persisted since late January. Moreover, this only happens with
Lowlands-mail, mail from other sources with non-English characters is
perfectly readable.  . . .   *Luc Hellinckx, Halle, Belgium*

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From: Sandy Fleming <sandy at fleimin.demon.co.uk> Subject: LL-L "Technica"
2009.08.17 (01) [EN]

The phenomenon of 'little rectangles' replacing 'weird characters' is well
known to programmers who have been struggling (well, occasionally) with the
inadequacies of legacy ascii text editors for years. Though text editors are
gradually getting there with unicode, each text editor or viewer can have
kts quirks, so anything can happen.
It can be that your mailer just isn't able to access the characters or that
your unicode font hasn't gpt these characters,
In my phone, for example, I seem to see 'practical' diacritics such as
à áâãäåæāăąçćĉċčðďđèéêëēĕėęěĝğġ but not the phonetics characters people use
on this list. You might want to check if the problem only occurs with
Lowlands-L because it's the only mail you get with these kinds of
diactritics.
If so, a solution might be to download a better font. I can't guarantee it,
but it's something to try. Just check first that thestuff you're failing to
see is the stuff that you wouldn't receive from sources other than this
list. Maybe you could get someone to email you phonetics characters from
their personal email address, and that might help you to see where the
problem really lies.
Sandy Fleming
Http://scotstext.org/ <http://scotstext.org/>

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