Re: Question on encoding Re: ML4 (was Re: TECH: Testing again etc.)

Clint Jackson BAKER wrote:
> Hello--
> How is this post encoded?  My computer had been set for Western
> European, and it was a nightmare, so I figured it was in Unicode, but
> when I reset it, though it looked mostly right, there were still several
> empty "boxes".
As has been said, it's encoded in UTF-8. What you saw when you chose unicode
was probably right: boxes indicate required characters missing from the font
that you're using, which is common enough these days, especially considering
I was using some ugly things like _t_ with an under-comma. I had some boxes
too (though only in mozilla's display, not in the xterm I used to compose the
message - they use different unicode fonts_

> Have we established a standard here of indicating encoding in our
> posts?  If not, it would be great. :-)
Ha! Welcome to the debate :)

> Clint

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