Chinese character test

[Douglas G. Wilson]

Douglas G. Wilson wrote:
>> ?j?a��A?n!
>>
> I got gibberish. But that's because of my obsolete E-mail client, which
> I have now replaced with a Unicode-compatible program.
>
> Now I can read all my Russian and Chinese spam! ... well, at least
> perceive the words.
>
> The character test worked OK according to the ADS-L on-line record:
>
> http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0803a&L=ads-l&D=1&F=&S=&P=1995
>
>
> Let's see whether this will fly:
It didn't fly. It was Unicode. I can send and receive Unicode but the
ADS server apparently cannot or will not use it ... apparently the
server can handle Big5 encoding, but I don't have a convenient way to
input Big5 AFAIK, and I suppose others may not either. Maybe I'm missing
something important again.

I hope someone better informed can comment. Surely in this modern era
the server should be able to deal with Unicode?

-- Doug Wilson

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