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> On 6/29/05, taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...> wrote:> *
> Stephen Mulraney said on 2005-06-29 21:22:06 +0200> > Incidently, I notice
> that the listsev page was a new interface, and> > the interface seems to be
> a core part of the listserv software> > itself (judging how the name of the
> interface is given as just> > 'Listserv 14.4'). So presumeably the
> listserv software has been> > given an upgrade - and my first though is 'is
> the eating of certain> > unicode characters fixed?'. Can anyone recall which
> ones were> > eaten? Ones encoded with 0xa0, something like that?> >
> Certainly worth testing, see attached file.
>
> Well, it works for me, at least in thunderbird. Viewing the attachment
> fromwithin gmail in firefox, for me anyway, doesn't work, though.
> But the question is: are any of those nice symbols ones that used to
> fail?IIRC, many symbols came through alright (on a correctly configured
> system),but a number did not.
> So, some further tests:
> First of all, your test repeated, this time in the message body (I
> don'tknow if that might change anything...). If it doesn't come through,
> it'llshow (my, anyway) gmail isn't passing it properly onto the listserv.
> Macrons: ā ē ī ō ū Hachek: š ž ǧ ǰ ǎVarious IPA: θ ð ɥ ʏ ɪ ɛ ʉ ɫ kʲ tʰ t͡b
> a˨ e˧ i˦ ↓ | ‖ ɓ ǃ ǀ ǂ ɑOther: москжа さくら にっぽん
> ελλενικι æøå þð ŋ む
>
> Now.. Quoting Mark J. Reed from 7th of May '04:
> > The listserv software used on listserv.brown.edu<
http://listserv.brown.edu>,
> for whatever reason,> strips the high bit off bytes in the decimal range
> 128-160, EVEN IF THEY> ARE ENCODED AS QUOTED-PRINTABLE. Or base64. You send
> a message with,> say, Cyrillic yeru, U+044B. It is UTF-8 encoded and then
> QP-encoded,> the result being =D1=8B. The listserv software turns it into
> =D1=0B,> which is an illegal UTF-8 sequence, so the list recipients get>
> gobbledygook.
> So, let's try some Cyrillic with a yeru: Язык [ja-z-y-k].
> Yitzik also mentioned somewhere that Georgian was mangled, so let'stry
> that:
> ხ 4334 10EE GEORGIAN LETTER XANჯ 4335 10EF GEORGIAN LETTER JHANჰ 4336 10F0
> GEORGIAN LETTER HAE
> Now, let's see...
> [prob. my 5th post of the day - I don't think I've posted to or even
> readthe list for a few months..!]
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