ken wrote: > >> Also, I do not think you could accurately represent the Principia without > >> some of the mathematical symbols available in Unicode. I mean, it's hard > >> to > >> do a\xB2 + b\xB2 = c\xB2, > > So ... this brings up something where we didn't do a good job. > > I sent out my original reply to Norm's email with the line: > > a² + b² = c² > > Those superscript 2's are the Unicode character U+00B2. Looking at the > mailing list archives, they got sent out encoded in quoted-printable, maybe > because one of my lines was a little too long. So the actual text looked > like: > > a=C2=B2 + b=C2=B2 =3D c=C2=B2
the copy i received was charset utf-8, encoding base64. no q-p to be seen. paul > > The character set was UTF-8. As far as I know, that's all good. However, > Norm's reply wasn't so great. It was sent with a character set of UTF-8 > (good), encoded in quoted-printable (also good), but the line he quoted > above contained: > > a=B2 + b=B2 =3D c=B2 > > Which are the superscript '2's, but in ISO-8859-1. So we've got a situation > where the email I sent out was, AFAIK, correctly encoded, but somewhere > at Norm's end the UTF-8 characters got converted into ISO-8859-1 (which > is fine), but the character set of Norm's reply to me was set to UTF-8 > (which is NOT fine). I'd like to understand how that happened so we can > fix it in the future (I am guessing maybe this happened in your editor). > Norm, which editor are you using to compose/reply to email? Are you > using anything like replyfilter? (You would have had to configure that). > Anything you can tell us about your setup would be useful. > > --Ken > > _______________________________________________ > Nmh-workers mailing list > Nmh-workers@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers =---------------------- paul fox, p...@foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's 63.3 degrees) _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers