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

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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