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

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 08:59:21 -0500, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 02:46:07PM +0200, Isaac Penzev wrote:
>> Georgian -- ქა?? თული ენა ლამაზია.
>
> FYI, there's definitely an encoding error there, at least in the
> message as it reached me.  The byte-by-byte hex codes are as follows:
>
> 47 65 6f 72 67 69 61 6e 20 2d 2d 20 e1/83/a5 e1/83/90 e1/83/20
>  G  e  o  r  g  i  a  n SP  -  - SP ქ        ა        ?
>
> 0xE1 0x83 0x20 is an illegal UTF-8 sequence; 0xE1 can only begin
> a three-byte character, but 0x20 can only be a single-byte character.
> Looks like a byte got dropped somewhere.
It's been noted before that the Listserv appears to eat certain characters
[whether this is true or not still...?]; possibly one of these is in the
UTF-8 representation of that Georgian letter.   (and in some of the other
test chars that have been eaten)


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