Re: Senyecan ortho. breakthrough

On Tuesday, October 26, 2004, at 01:39  PM, caeruleancentaur wrote:

> This is very interesting!!  When I wrote these characters in my
> original, they appeared (at least on my monitor) perfectly formed,
> not just on the edit screen and the preview screen, but also on the
> message screen after the message had been posted:
>
> 0154 š is s-caron
> 0158 ž is z-caron
>  230 µ is mu
> Here the characters are displayed properly on my monitor.
>
> In the response from Muke Tevers (see below) they do indeed appear as
> the spacing umlaut and the spacing cedilla.  The mu is intact.
>
> My logical deduction is that I can make those characters and he
> can't.  My logical deduction doesn't make sense to me.  It's no
> wonder I'm only semi-literate on the computer.  I have no idea what
> makes things tick.  No need to waste a message on this in reply.  I'm
> just wondering outloud.  But I would like to know (as a P.S. in other
> messages?) what others saw, "my" characters or "Muke's" characters.
I saw the proper characters.

It has to do with character encodings. In Windows' character set, which
most people can see, the characters are in the positions you say they
are. If all the email programs, operating systems, and servers along
the way from your computer to mine handle character encodings properly,
the characters should appear properly. Whatever OS and mail client
combination Muke is using is changing the encoding. When this happens,
mu stays intact because it is one of the few characters that is in the
same position no matter what encoding you're using (Windows, Mac Roman,
or Unicode). The others aren't in the same position so they get
reencoded as different characters.

Something like that. Without more details I can't tell exactly what's
going on.

Hasta la pasta,
Jonathyn Bet'nct

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