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Re: Elves and Ill Bethisad

From:Tim May <butsuri@...>
Date:Monday, October 20, 2003, 23:33
Costentin Cornomorus wrote at 2003-10-20 16:25:24 (-0700)
 > --- "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:
 >
 > > Christophe's original message came through fine
 > > here with "Gaulhósc";
 > > and "Narbonósc"; the question marks you
 > > presumably see in both of
 > > those words are actually lowercase O's with
 > > acute accent marks.
 >
 > I think it was a-acute, u-grave and o-chapeau
 > that I sent.
 >

And they came through fine, for me.

 | > First, it's "Gaulhósc", not
 | > *"Gaulosc",
 |
 | Bloody FRENCH and their accents! OK: Gháùlhôsch!
 | :P

(Assuming _my_ mail client doesn't screw things up when I send this.
It'll probably be all right here, but when there's a set of characters
that obviously calls for UTF-8 it tends to choose some 7-bit Japanese
encoding, so I don't have complete confidence.)

Replies

Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...>
Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...>The mysterious substitution of question marks (was Re: Elves and Ill Bethisad)