Viewing unicode with Eudora 5.02

[Kjetil Rå Hauge]

>Greg Thomson wrote:


>What I find is that the extended headers sometimes have
>charset=UTF-8, and other times charset=unicode. In the former case
>Eudora 5.0 for Mac (with system 9) does convert the Cyrillic text
>automatically, as you say. However, in the latter case it does not,
>and none of the Eudora conversion tables that I have will
>transliterate it. I've written to Qualcomm about this, but haven't
>gotten a reply yet.
>

It might be more fruitful to take up the matter with the manufacturer
of the program that wrote the declaration "charset=unicode". This is
not a legal (according to the standard:
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/character-sets)
declaration. Unicode characters may be encoded in the data stream in
several ways and must be declared accordingly: utf-7, utf-8, utf-16
and others, and there is no way (or at least not an easy way) for the
program to find out which one has been used on a given web page or in
a given message.
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