LL-L 'Technica' 2006.07.20 (01) [E]

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L O W L A N D S - L * 30 July 2006 * Volume 01
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From: Kevin Caldwell <kevin.caldwell1963 at verizon.net>
Subject: LL-L 'Language varieties' 2006.07.29 (06) [E]

>From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
>Subject: Etymology
>
>Moyen, Henry!
>
>P.S.:
>
>> > PS: Ron, Western Encoding (ISO-8859-1) works better than Unicode (UTF-8)
>> > now on my system.
>> >
>> It doesn't concern the current discussion, but that's
>> because one of the headers of each message reads
>> [Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"], so your
>> email client (correctly) assumes the encoding is ISO-8859-1.
>> However, the actual encoding is UTF-8 (so I presume), hence
>> the problems with the displayed text.
>
>Since we have switched providers I've been having to use a less than satisfactory
>program, in part because, unrelated to the new provider, the usual programs can't
>cope with the firewall that's supposed to protect our network. So there are two
>simultaneous changes. I do switch encoding to Unicode, but it could well be that
>somewhere along the line it gets overridden by ISO-8859-1 mode. I sure wish I
>knew what to do about it.

For what it's worth, I haven't been able to read any special characters in
Lowlands-L submissions for several months now, no matter what encoding I use, and
regardless of whether I read it in Outlook or in Internet Explorer.

Kevin Caldwell

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