Re: CPA - An ASCII-based phonetic alphabet

On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Roger Mills wrote:

> And Rosta wrote:  (and I hesitate to quote, because Lord knows what will happen)...
>
>
>     I got lots of square boxes, but I changed the font to Lucida sans & get IPA.
>     This was a major pain in the
>     arse to do, tho. This is with Outlook 2000 under Win 98. Unfortunately HTML
>     format totally fucks everything up, so it's totally impractical to use this
>     as default.
>
>     Well, whatever you did, it is a miracle. The first time I've seen real IPA in an
>     e-mail. Except your message was in 18pt Arial, and blue......(is it still?)
Not really a miracle. And sent his mail both in plain-text and html
format. You're obviously reading the html-formatted mail, which
includes a correct encoding specifier. So outlooky mua's can read
real Unicode, but they have to be told that it's html...

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