Re: Country names

On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 05:40:28PM +1000, Tristan McLeay wrote:
> It was the IPA length triangular colon. Most fonts won't have it, so
> you'll have to get a font like Thyromanes or Arial Unicode to see it,
> and you'll need to configure your mail client to show IPA and Spacing
> Modifier Letters with that font. I'm afraid I can't say how to do it,
> but if you're lucky it'll be automatic.
Maybe it will be less then helpful to point out that mutt (for Un*x)
running under a UTF-8 terminal (xterm and most other modern X terminals
running under a UTF-8 locale) work transparently, and that the default
fonts for xterm include a complete set of IPA characters. Keyboard
layouts and keyboard layout making programs are free for Un*x, too.

> Unfortunately, many email servers will hack away with 8-bit characters,
> and UTF-8 characters are 8-bits
I've never seen an email server break a UTF-8 message, as mail programs
mime-encode them first, so the message (as the server sees it) is
7-bits. If you can read the last line of my message, then 8-bit encoding
isn't a problem. Every problem with UTF-8 and email I've heard about is
client breakage.

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