Re: French pronunciation (Was: Re: Fw: [wika] Boreanesian)

> X-Sender: grands16@mathilda.bde.espci.fr
> Date:         Wed, 24 May 2000 12:17:47 +0200
> From: Christophe Grandsire <Christophe.Grandsire@...>
>
> At 00:28 24/05/00 -0400, [someone (Nik?)] wrote:
> >Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> >+AD4-Is there anywhere on the WEB a grammar of Javanese? I'd like
> >+AD4-to see that. Maybe I'd borrow such a system for Itakian :) .
> >+AD4-
> >Not that I know of+ADs- but then, I haven't looked.......but there
> >are several in print, in Dutch or English. One of the more
> >exhaustive Dutch ones is by +AF8-Taco Roorda+AF8- (strange
> >name+ACE-), late XIX or early XX Century. A good way to learn Dutch
> >linguistic vocabulary, if that would be of any use.
>
> PS: you should look for your mailer's configuration, the messages I receive
> from you are always spotted with strange things of type +A..-.
That's UTF-7 encoding. It's the way Outlook 4 (?) sends Unicode mail.
One of the few examples of Microsoft quickly adopting something from
Internet engineering circles instead of inventing something inferior
themselves --- just a pity that they chose one that was never adopted
by anyone else because it was not the right way to go.

(Unicode is now generally used in UTF-8 representation. As the name
says it's not 7-bit clean, so it's often encoded in BASE64 for mail
transport; but even if sent or decoded to 8-bit characters it's just
as unreadable for people on non-Unicode systems).

Anyway --- people who use older Outlook versions would do well to turn
off Unicode and use ISO 8859-1/Latin-1 instead. Only other people with
old Outlooks can see the non-ASCII characters they send otherwise.

And people with newer Outlooks should do the same when sending to
mailing lists --- but I think those default to Latin-1 anyway unless
there are characters outside its range.

Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)