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

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 21:24:41 -0600, Herman Miller <hmiller@...> wrote:
> Mark J. Reed wrote:
>> So far, so good.  But then we once again have that illegal sequence
>> E1 83 20:
>>
>> e1 83 20 e1 83 a1 e1 83 a2 e1 83 a3 e1 83 a4 e1 83 a5 e1 83 a6 e1 83 a7
>> ???      ს        ტ        უ        ფ        ქ        ღ        ყ
>>
>> That *should* be E1 83 A0.  I'm guessing there's some
>> insufficiently-Unicode-aware part of your mail client which is
>> changing what it thinks are non-breaking spaces (U+00A0) into
>> regular spaces (U+0020).
>
> Mozilla 1.5 still has the same problem with A0 bytes, just like the
> earlier version of Mozilla that I was trying out the last time this
> discussion came up. It's also possible the A0 bytes are getting
> corrupted somewhere along the way before the message gets to the mail
> reader. I could try the latest 1.6a beta, but it probably won't do any
> good. (Agent, my primary mail reader, substitutes question marks for any
> characters outside the standard Windows character set.)
A test message sent to myself displays the entire Georgian alphabet
properly, so the problem appears to inhere in the listserv and not in the
Opera mailer (and probably not the Mozilla mailer either?)


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