Re: CHAT: An introduction

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 18:01:03 -0600, Scotto Hlad <scotto@...>
wrote:

> (I've been having troubles with diacriticals being stripped off my
> postings
> so there needs to be an acute accent on the e's  des and bénvenu and as
> well
> a cedilla under the second n in bénvenu)
I got the accents, but not the cedilla. You're sending 8-bit plain text,
without specifying a character set, which is technically meaningless, but
Opera seems to handle it by default as Latin-1 (or Latin-something, at any
rate), so it shows up just fine here.

The solution to your problem is to send 8-bit text with a character set,
which you can do in Outlook quite easily IIRC[*]. However, there is no
simple 8-bit encoding that contains either n-cedilla or a combining
cedilla, so you'll have to set a multi-byte encoding. The best one to use
ordinarily would be UTF-8, but the software that powers this list is
broken when it comes to certain (effectively random) UTF-8 characters. You
can beat this by using UTF-7, which is virtually bullet-proof, but not all
mail software is capable of displaying UTF-7. You can't please all the
people all the time, as they say.

Or ... have you considered using n-tilde instead of n-cedilla? Cedilla
historically comes from a small "z" underneath the letter -- are you sure
that you have a rationale for that being likely in the development of the
development of writing in your language?

[*] ... but it's been so long since I used it that I don't remember how.




Paul

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