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Re: Icelandic umlauts.

From:Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...>
Date:Friday, June 23, 2000, 22:14
> Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 16:06:42 -0400 > From: John Cowan <jcowan@...>
> That works too. But actually Oskar's mail is in UTF-8 rather than Latin-1, > which allows him to represent any Unicode character. If you set your mailer > to expect UTF-8, the Right Thing should be displayed.
John, as long as the only guy sending UTF-8 so far _doesn't_ put a proper charset parameter in the MIME Content-Type, no properly written MUA should try to display it as anything but gibberish. The default in MIME is US-ASCII, and cannot be overridden by user preferences. What irks me more is that I've seen nothing outside Latin-1 in Oskar's posts. There's no need for his MUA to go to UTF-8. I realize that I will have to fix my mail reader to do best-effort conversion from Unicode (UTF-7/8) to my terminal charset soon. But I need to read up on the multi-charset support in Emacs first. Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)