Re: Romaunt days (was: A funny linguistic subway experience &c)

Raymond Brown wrote:

> No - it's just "extended ASCII" but I guess because I'm using a Mac,
> Windows will insist on re-interpreting the things <sigh>
No, it's your mail program, which is labeling your mail "ISO 8859-1",
which means it is committed to only use characters that are in the
repertoire of that character set.  Greek letters other than lower-case
mu (the MICRON SIGN) aren't among them, and the mailer should not have
let you transmit them.

Instead, it sent them out as semi-random characters like 1/2, which is
not a MacRoman character.  This problem is unavoidable, because there
are 128 characters in MacRoman beyond ASCII, and only 96 ISO 8859-1
characters beyond ASCII.

Then when the message returned to you via Steg, your mailer interprets
it as 8859-1 and remaps it to MacRoman, with the resulting gross
effects.

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