LL-L "Technica" 2004.11.18 (04) [E]

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From: Henry Pijffers <henry.pijffers at saxnot.com>
Subject: LL-L "Technical" 2004.11.18 (02) [E]

Henno Brandsma schreev:
>
> So, how about Arabic, folks? I am so happy to have native (and learned)
> Arabic speakers on this list, so I'm appealing to them. We won't publish
> your name(s) if you don't want to.
>
> سÙ?اÙ
> Ø? صد٠Ù?ات عز٠زة! Ø£Ù?ا Ù?Ù?ت جدÙ?ا Ù
> سرÙ?رة Ø¥Ù? Ø£Ù?ت تساعد. رجاء Ù?تبت Ø¥Ù?Ù? Ù .
>
<snip/>
>
> Why send this nonsense (see above?): to illustrate my problem with
unicode..
> I view (and send) this message using UTF-8 encoding, working on my new MAC
> OS-X (Panther) computer,
> and I cannot get the Arabic, or even Frisian (see Andrys) characters to
show
> themselves properly.

UTF8 is more or less the standard 256-character ASCII set. And that only
contains the regular Latin characters, plus a few variations on them, and
some other often-used ones. It definitely doesn't include characters from
Arabic and many other languages.

If you really want to mix-and-match languages, set the encoding to UTF16.
But that might be a problem for some mail programs (do I hear Outlook people
screaming?!)

regards,
Henry

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