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

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 19:49:32 -0500, Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...>
wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 16:38:20 -0500, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
>> [B]e aware that many people
>> who would otherwise receive Latin-1 characters fine won't even see
>> those if they're in a UTF-8 message.
>
> Er, are you sure? I thought that virtually every 128-255 character came
> through unscathed between Latin-1 and UTF-8. I bow to Jown as final
> arbiter, obviously, but that has always been my understanding.
[This has already been answered; it's the cause of the weirdly lengthening
UTF-8 string posted upthread...]

> What happens if I set my mail client to default encoding of "Latin-1" and
> paste some non-Latin-1 characters into the email? Is there an RFC that
> defines a suitable way of coping?
Opera's M2 appears to upsmart the outgoing encoding to UTF-8 automagically.


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