Re: Senyecan ortho. breakthrough

caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...> wrote:
> --- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, John Cowan <jcowan@R...> wrote:
>> Danny Wier scripsit:
>
>>> You could also use S and Z with carons since you can input those
>>> with Alt+0xxx too!
>>>
>>> S-caron = Alt+0138
>>> Z-caron = Alt+0142
>>> s-caron = Alt+0154
>>> z-caron = Alt+0158
>
>> Unlike the other characters, however, these are strictly Windows-
>> only; they shouldn't be used on this list.
>
> Why is that, John?  š   ž   µ
If you have a poorly-behaved Windows mail client, it will try to send
cp-1251 (the Windows codepage) as Latin 1, which doesn't have these
characters.

A well-behaved mail client will thus try to display them thus:
   S-caron = broken pipe
   Z-caron = spacing umlaut
   s-caron = spacing trema
   z-caron = spacing cedilla


If you have a better-behaved mail client, it will tell you you're trying
to send characters your encoding doesn't say exists.  Opera's mail client
does it, anyway,  though its default is Latin 9, which _does_ include
the caronned characters.   [I would have included the characters for broken
pipe, etc., above but they aren't in Latin 9, so it yelled at me....]


	*Muke!
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