> De : Phil Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Objet : Re: [abcusers] Character encoding (was Re: ABC, AHC, Do-Re-Mi)
> Date : lundi 10 juillet 2000 10:08
>
> Christophe Declerq wrote:
> >> De : Sigfrid Lundberg, Lub NetLab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> Objet : Re: [abcusers] Re: ABC, AHC, Do-Re-Mi
> >> Date : dimanche 9 juillet 2000 20:22
> >
> >> Beware, the åäö are not escaped in this one. abc2ps works anyway. Is
that
> >> a bug?
> >
> >abc2ps understands any character in iso latin-1 encoding (which is OK
for
> >Unix or Windows) **or** with TeX-style escape sequence (the only way for
> >MacOS). I would call that a feature, though.
>
> That's what I thought, but actually Sigfried's text looks perfectly
> OK in BarFly under MacOS 9.0.4. I'm not absolutely sure that its
> correct, since I'm not that familiar with scandinavian letters, but
> at least all of the åäö come out as characters with diacritical marks
> rather than blocks and squiggles.
Um, yes, but your E-mail client has probably translated the MIME
specifications of Sigfrid's e-mail to MacOS encoding for you and so it
works with BarFly, but try it with abc4mac now...
Christophe
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