* Luke Kanies <l...@madstop.com> [2005-10-17 10:02 -0500]: > On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, A. Pagaltzis wrote: > > > I get this in Aristotle's emails (gibberish instead of '), > > > > It’s because your mailer sucks. (Are you surprised?) > > I'm guessing Pine has no relationship to whether this works; I'm thinking > instead that it's the terminal itself.
It's probably Pine. A. Pagaltzis sent an email in UTF-8. Your quoted reply contained UTF-8 characters, but had been labeled (by your MUA, presumably) as ISO 8859-1. Thus, previously properly-rendered UTF-8 gets mangled on its trip through your software. Charset specification via MIME has been around for a while now. Programs should be able to get this sort of thing right. (I took the liberty of correcting the curly quotation mark. Otherwise, my mailer would have encoded each byte of the original as a separate character, doubling or tripling its length.) -- ...computer contrarian of the first order... / http://aperiodic.net/phil/ PGP: 026A27F2 print: D200 5BDB FC4B B24A 9248 9F7A 4322 2D22 026A 27F2 --- -- You are strange and off-putting. Go now. -- Dracula, to Xander (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Buffy vs. Dracula") ---- --- --
