Re: [Ltru] UTF-8

Hoi,
It happens often that exactly because of the content is NOT UTF-8 that I get
the information mangled. With UTF-8 you either get the message or it will be
indicated that you have insufficient fonts installed. The notion that the
current encoding always works is wrong.
Thanks,
    Gerard

On 6/21/07, John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> wrote:
>
> "Reshat Sabiq (Re?at)" scripsit:
>
> > I'd like to get a feel for what the concerns are about using UTF-8 for
> > subtag registry. Based on my testing locally, that works fine on IE, and
> > firefox (the latter both on Windows and Linux). If anybody happens to
> > use a shell or shell client that can't handle UTF-8, all they have to do
> >  when they see a mangled character is use one of many different clients
> > that can handle UTF-8. There's hardly any problem, as far as i can see.
>
> The issue is that email is an essential part of the process, and
> guaranteeing that email gets through the whole of the infrastructure
> unmangled is still difficult.
>
> --
> Possession is said to be nine points of the law,                John Cowan
> but that's not saying how many points the law might have.
> cowan@ccil.org
>         --Thomas A. Cowan (law professor and my father)
>
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