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Re: TECH: Testing again, no new on-topic content (was Re: "Language Creation" in your conlang)

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Monday, November 17, 2003, 20:32
En réponse à Mark J. Reed :


>Actually, that one went out in Latin-1, since I didn't have any Unicode >characters in it; my mailer uses Latin-1 if it can get away with it >(and ASCII if there aren't even any Latin-1 characters in the message). > >This message will go out as UTF-8, however, thanks to the inclusion >of the following Cyrillic: > > Я не сумашэдший; ну, вот! > >And now we'll throw in some plain ol' Latin-1 text, which will >nevertheless be indecipherable if this message is treated as Latin-1: > > ¡No soy loco; míralo!
This one came out OK when I "sent to browser" (in Eudora I just get garbage), but many others didn't even when sending to browser (and my browser is Opera, the best Unicode-aware browser around). As as been said before, the Listserv also does its own mangling, and not everything goes through in unscathed. I would like to use a Unicode-aware mail client, but Eudora is the only mail client I found which is free for Windows, handles IMAP correctly, doesn't crash and lose my mail every ten minutes, and isn't a security black hole ;))) . So I gave up the Unicode support, finding the other conditions more important for my sanity :))) . Moreover, I like the Eudora look and feel. If only they could work on handling Unicode instead of adding stupid options like Mood Watcher... Christophe Grandsire. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.

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Stephen Mulraney <ataltanie@...>
Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Isidora Zamora <isidora@...>