On 3/30/2002 8:52 PM, "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> May I ask why seeing the fl ligature - which does exist in Mac Roman - leads > Entourage to think that it's really Western European (Windows)? Is it > actually that much more likely to be an Icelandic (thorn?) character than a > Mac Roman ligature? (Perhaps it is.) Are there many other characters which > are interpreted likewise as "proof" of Windows encoding? In most cases, MacLatin1 is simply an extension of the standard Latin1 (ISO-8859-1), using undefined characters for Mac-specific characters. An exception is the thorn characters (upper and lower case), which are in the standard Latin1, but the Mac version hijacked. So, if you receive a perfectly validly encoded Latin1 message with these characters, we wouldn't display it correctly. The whole ISO-8859-1 thing is a big mess because of the history there. One way for us to do better would be to sniff the User-Agent/X-Mailer headers and try to figure it out from that, but that's error prone too. > This finally explains, I think, why all my OE script descriptions which I > used to paste from Tex-Edit Plus into HTML emails to Diane Ross for posting > on the Unofficial OE site used to change all my words with fi and fl (I > didn't intentionally use ligatures but maybe some program "helped out") into > weird characters on the browser page. Although here it was perhaps whatever > software was being used to transfer the HTML rather than OE doing it. > Similar things still happen if I leave any upper-ASCII characters in > descriptions posted at AppleScript Central. Encoding as UTF-8 will get rid of the ambiguity. Dan -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
