Re: OT: Semi-OT: More on charsets

From: "Chris Palmer" <cecibean@...>

> From nicole's signature:
>
> > shmuli atae muhnkia-jiqek qelek nimmekel-Luddiga bl? apor-flauschige
> > blaue Affen-t?difai k?wainG MANgKIWi-m?ndos ?zoros faffalos-khami
> > zhaftami nuri xhan-jas?nni j??i jakih???i-Moncaithe gorma
> > cl?mhacha-Monhyey ngonul hweyaru ryehyumeru-muncaidhean gorma
> > molach-jhachtaraadkimyo-monos peludos azules-pushistye sinie
> > obe&#380;iany-z??nesfersaup s?l?raup b?fparaup-k&#281;dzierzawe [...]
>
> Does this look right in anyone's mailer? It has >7b characters (which
> got converted to ?s) in it and some HTML character entities, but my
> mailer (Mutt 1.3.23i, dubiously compiled on OpenBSD) seems to have been
> told it was ASCII. It's a shame it gets so mangled in transit, because I
> want to see everyone's nifty orthographies and transliterations.
The characters are vowels with macrons, which are all found in the Latin
Extended-A range (that's from 256 dec/100 hex on) and are used for Latvian.
The best Latin-1 alternative would be to use circumflexes (but y-circumflex
is out). For plain ASCII, you'd have to use for a-macron something like a^,
a:, a` or A (if you don't mind case-sensitive transliterations).

~Danny~


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