Klarinet Archive - Posting 001500.txt from 2000/10

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Umlauts, etc.
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 22:28:17 -0500

----- Original Message -----
From: "David B. Niethamer" <dnietham@-----.edu>
> One problem with these characters is that some servers aren't capable of
> handling the upper ASCII characters, and do funny things to the text of
> the email. It's been the subject of discussion on a few computer lists
> that I read. Evidently your mail only has to pass through one of these
> servers to corrupt the text. It's just a small problem, but it can be
> pretty annoying.

You're absolutely right, David. Mail wasn't made to be 8 bit clean (only 7
bits), so the fact we're seeing the diacrits, umlauts et al. is only because
we're lucky enough not to have most of our mail routed via systems that
strip the 8th bit.

There's 7 bit clean methods to get the characters across using MIME, and I
do allow that to go across the mailing list. In this message, for instance,
I'm requesting the JIS encoding to be used. However, I don't have the
Japanese text entry extensions installed (they are on my wife's computer).
If I did write this message using a mixture of kana, romanji, and kanji,
you'd see a weird mishmash of printable characters, conveying nothing -
unless you had the same font set/encoding on your computer.

Mark C.

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