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

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Mark J. Reed wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 08:19:03PM -0500, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> > So if a message is sent
> > in UTF-8 (like this one)
>
> 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!
I've fiddled around with the options I have, and I can get some degree of
unicode support, but:

I get what I think is
YA ne square ^A square ^C ma square ^H ...
Is that even remotely right? Webpages in cyrillic come out right; I do
have the fonts.

(My reply will probably be garbled.)

> 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!
That comes out fine :)


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Tirstan.