Eyjafjallajokull from an icelander

Sat Apr 24 01:45:31 UTC 2010

#$%@#$!! Primitive e-mail systems.
The easiest thing is to go to the Wikipedia entry, since any browser worth its salt will render Unicode characters correctly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyjafjallajökull

I actually turned html off on my fancy web-based Zimbra e-mail system, and sent everything in plain text, and it was rendered correctly in Courier font. But some folks are stuck with e-mail clients that do things like =CB and =88 instead of left square bracket, primary stress etc.

Geoff

Geoffrey S. Nathan
Faculty Liaison, C&IT
and Associate Professor, Linguistics Program
+1 (313) 577-1259 (C&IT)
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----- "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET> wrote:

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> <font size=3D3>At 4/22/2010 03:26 PM, Geoffrey Nathan wrote:<br>
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> 8bit<br><br>
> For those whose e-mail clients can support IPA, it's transcribed this
> way:<br><br>
> [=CB=88ei=CB=90jafjatlaj=9C=CB=90k=CA=8Ftl=CC=A5]</font></blockquote><br>
> How would you do it for those whose e-mail clients do not?<br><br>
> Joel<br><br>
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