(Note. This Email did not require any copying or pasting) Ken Hornstein <k...@pobox.com> writes: >>7. Stored the result in UTF-8. > >I think this the problem. What you sent out was definitely NOT UTF-8, but >ISO-8859-1. Which makes me think your editor, or maybe something before >the text got to your editor, was the problem. > >>UTF-8 has the virtue that it represents ASCII characters in ASCII. But now you >>tell me that not even UTF-8 is good enough. So what format do you want me to >>use to for writing EMail destined text? > >Well ... here was a case where what you sent was probably not what you >intended; the email indicated that the text content was in UTF-8, but >the actual bytes were ISO-8859-1. I, personally, do not case whether or >not you send out email in UTF-8, or ISO-8859-1, or KOI8-R. All I care >about is that the charset that your email is labelled actually matches >the bytes in your email (since I'm UTF-8, my nmh installation can handle >pretty much any character set); I'd presume you care about that as well, >because if they mismatch then people won't be interpreting your email >properly. For what it's worth, it's relatively straightforward to >override the character set on a per-message basis. > >In the larger sense, I want people to be able to use nmh effectively, >and to be able to read and compose mail with international character sets. >In a perfect world, it would work perfectly for everyone out of the box; >we're not quite there yet. If it's not working for someone, I'd like >to understand why so we can make it better. That's why I'm asking what >went wrong here. But this doesn't sound fundamentally like a nmh problem; >it sounds like something went wrong between where you took the text >from my original message and incorporated it into your reply.
Please bear with me; I trying hard to understand. Which of the following, if any, is true: 1. When my editor stores characters in UTF-8, they are sometimes not the characters I see it displaying. 2. My Editor is not storing in UTF-8. 3. My Editor is storing in UTF-8, but the message specications do not say that. Norman Shapiro _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers