Re: troubles with IPA vowels (was: Leute)

--- Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> wrote:
> > That's good.  If the word "Redder" exists in
> German, even better.
True. Some better examples already were given already,
so let's just say: it's the same as Gernam "e" vs "a
Umlaut".

>
> *nods* Philippe Caquant's emails often feature
> mangled non-ASCII
> characters on my screen as well. It appears that
> Yahoo! sends out his
> emails with "Charset: us-ascii", which is, of
> course, a patent lie,
> causing them to turn into question marks on my
> screen and, apparently,
> (char & 0x7f) on yours (e.g. ä -> d).
>
> Philippe, do you know whether you can change your
> email setup so that
> it announces a different character set - or get
> another email account
> for the conlang list? (FWIW, I like Fastmail.FM, and
> it's free if you
> don't mind taglines below emails - though there's no
> advertising on
> the web interface!).
>
Yahoo! annouced a new version some time ago, but this
consisted mainly in increasing email storage, and
nothing was said about encoding. Some people seem to
get these special characters, some seem not. I can see
them quite right, even when coming from somebody else
(but definitely not the cyrillic characters, alas !)

I've just been fighting two days with my computer
after getting ADSL (512K). Even if I have a quite
up-to-date version of Norton AntiVirus, I got several
times viruses and I had to restore the system. This
even happened while I was trying to update my system
from Windows Update, to improve my security level ! So
I'm getting really tired of it. (This didn't happen
when I used a low speed connexion). I put firewalls
everywhere, but I might as well have sung 'Ave Maria',
for what it was worth.

I also downloaded Mozilla, but I don't completely
master it yet. Also, I'd like to get list messages in
one mailbox, and others in another one, that's the
only reason why I'm using Yahoo at the time. There
surely is something more clever to do, but wasting two
days is already not bad, I think I'll have a break now
:-D



=====
Philippe Caquant

"High thoughts must have high language." (Aristophanes, Frogs)

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