Re: Setting UTF-7 for usenet posts

2005-07-11 Thread Aidan Kehoe
Ar an t-aonú lá déag de mí Iúil, scríobh Andrzej Adam Filip: > > It's worse because it's > > [1] much less widely implemented than UTF-8 > > Which specific news readers support UTF-8 but no UTF-7? Gnus on XEmacs is one. -- Russian has no phoneme that corresponds directly to Germanic /h

Re: Setting UTF-7 for usenet posts

2005-07-11 Thread Adam Sjøgren
On 11 Jul 2005 18:09:35 +0200, Andrzej wrote: >> [2] less readable when the reader doesn't know it. > ?! I disagree. > UTF-7 uses only prinatable characters. Here is an example: Original text (iso-8859-1): Frække frølår UTF8: Frække frølÃ¥r UTF7:

Re: Setting UTF-7 for usenet posts

2005-07-11 Thread Andrzej Adam Filip
Jacob Sparre Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andrzej Adam Filip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I am under impression than UTF-7 is better suited for usenet posts > > than UTF-8. What is your opinion? > > UTF-7 may be marginally better suited, but personally I prefer an > appropriate fixed

Re: Setting UTF-7 for usenet posts

2005-07-11 Thread Andrzej Adam Filip
Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andrzej Adam Filip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I am under impression than UTF-7 is better suited for usenet posts than > > UTF-8. What is your opinion? > > It's worse because it's > [1] much less widely implemented than UTF-8 Which spec

Re: Setting UTF-7 for usenet posts

2005-07-11 Thread Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
Andrzej Adam Filip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am under impression than UTF-7 is better suited for usenet posts than > UTF-8. What is your opinion? It's worse because it's much less widely implemented than UTF-8, and also less readable when the reader doesn't know it. -- __("< Ma

Re: Setting UTF-7 for usenet posts

2005-07-11 Thread Jacob Sparre Andersen
Andrzej Adam Filip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am under impression than UTF-7 is better suited for usenet posts > than UTF-8. What is your opinion? UTF-7 may be marginally better suited, but personally I prefer an appropriate fixed-width encoding (in my case mostly ISO-8859-1). Greetings, J

Setting UTF-7 for usenet posts

2005-07-11 Thread Andrzej Adam Filip
How to set up UTF-7 encoding for non ASCI posts? [ Thanks in advance for the links ] I am under impression than UTF-7 is better suited for usenet posts than UTF-8. What is your opinion? -- Andrzej [en:Andrew] Adam Filip [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] All that is necessary for the triumph o