LL-L "Technica" 2003.05.16 (08) [E]

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From: Ruud Harmsen <rh at rudhar.com>
Subject: LL-L "Technica" 2003.05.16 (05) [E]

12:32 16-5-2003 -0700, Lowlands-L:
>From: "Mike" <botas at club-internet.fr>
>Subject: LL-L "Holidays" 2003.03.23 (04) [E]
>
>Can anyone explain to me why on my screen
>(which has been arranged such that my wife
>can correspond in cyrillic characters,
>and which as now turns out can display
>Parsi correctly)
>only gives me garbage on some LL language
>contributions I see, presumably using
>special characters of Latin script.
>I know that this subject has been
>treated on numerous occasions on LLL,
>I see mention of this code and that code,
>and every time I am utterly confused.
>Can anybody provide an understandable
>synthesis on this subject?

Two things are important: messages should have a header that
correctly identifies its character set. As far as I can see, all
messages in this list are marked as UTF-8 and indeed are in that
encoding, so no problem there.

Second, you need an email program, and OS, and fonts, that can
correctly handle UTF-8 and the scripts sometimes encoded in it. (But
most of the time, it's that just Latin 1, which is widely supported).

Your mileage may vary. Dialog http://www.40tude.com/dialog/ is very
good at handling character encoding, and I read positive reports
about Outlook Express and Mozilla. Others program may perform less
well.
Win98 and WinMe are not very good at it, although it sometimes works.
Win2000 and WinXp are said to be better. Having the font "Arial
Unicode MS" installed certainly helps for the more exotic scripts
(India and further east), but even without that, West, East, North
European, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic (script, including non-Arabic
languages like Farsi), Russian and other Cyrillic, should be no
problem given the right software.
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Ruud Harmsen  http://rudhar.com/index/whatsnew.htm  11 May 2003

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