Re: CHAT: digraphs vs. diacritics (was:Umberto Eco and Esperanto)

Lars Henrik skrev:

>> Date:         Tue, 15 Jun 1999 00:57:29 +0200
>> From: Kristian Jensen <kljensen@...>
>
>> This is more of a technical mailer question than a conlang=20
>> question. But how do I make sure my mailer sends the correct=20
>> graphs when I type these special Danish letters? I can type them=20
>> and read them fine. But when I try to send a mail in Danish with=20
>> such letters, the recipient always gets these letters messed up.=20
>> I have MS Outlook Express.
>
>You have to make it send =E6 =F8 =E5 quoted like =3DE6 =3DF8 =3DE5, and =
add the
>appropriate header. (Technically, use a Content-Transfer-Encoding=20
>of Quoted-Printable).
>
>It seems that that's what Outlook means by 'Use MIME encoding' ---=20
>in the version I just looked at, it's under 'Internet E-mail' in=20
>the main Preferences dialog.
>
>Try it and see --- if you mail me, I'll tell you exactly what it=20
>does.
Mange tak!! I'm mailing this both to the list and to you so we can see =
if there is a difference. I hope you don't mind.

I have the Danish version so I sorta had to figure out what exactly you =
meant by the things I had to do - but I think I got it. I clicked on =
'indstillinger' under the menu 'funktioner'. Then a new window popped up =
with different headers. I then went under the 'afsendelse' header. Then =
for the 'format for afsendelse af email', I chose 'almindelig tekst' =
with 'indstillinger' as 'mime - tekst kodes med: quoted printable'. I =
hope that works, so here goes some Nordic letters:

=C6=E6 - ae ligature
=D8=F8 - slashed o
=C5=E5 - a with o crown
=C4=E4 - a amlaut
=D6=F6 - o amlaut
=DE=FE - thorne
=D0=F0 - edh

Again thanks,
-kristian- 8)