On 30/10/02 15:33 -0500, Mark J. Reed wrote: > On 2002-10-30 at 12:23:53, David Wheeler wrote: > > This tells me that Mail.app, for some reason, didn't know that it was > > supposed to use UTF-8 when showing Larry's mail. When I pasted his mail > > into a UTF-8 document in Emacs, it looked fine. > > > > Given that it's probably UTF-8 that Perl 6 source code is written in, I > > think that you and I might be better off using a smarter mailer. > > > > David > Larry's mail was *marked* as UTF-8, but by the time I got it it > had no French quotes in it in UTF-8, Latin-1, or any other encoding anymore. > My mailer understand UTF-8 just fine, and so does vim (which I used to > look at my spool file to check for encoding oddities); in my copy of his > message, there's just nothing there. All I can think is that some MTA > along the way - possibly our very own Exchange server - stripped them out.
Wait. So you mean that a French quote isn't a question mark? I take back all those things I've said about the French in the last 24 hours. Cheers, Brian
