pual paul wrote:

> Those Encoding things, like magics! Sometime, totally out of
> control!=A0About what you read in a pc screen, OS laungauge set up,
> versions, encoding set up in every machine, what language standards
> been choosing, every body lays a hand on it. I never undstand them
> well=A0=A0!!!!

Unluckily, you're not alone. Too many of the programmers that write
something to the screen don't really care to learn about this,
consequently don't understand it, and mess it up royally when the input
is in anything but their assumed codepage or encoding.

At least with email, it's all nicely defined and there isn't much if
anything that should go wrong -- if the programmers of the various email
clients had considered the possibility of international email traffic :)

Anyway, for some reason Carey's email got marked as "ISO-8859-7" --
which is the Greek alphabet (see
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iso-8859>). For Polish, one would
typically use ISO-8859-2 (if not Unicode like UTF-8), which is what
Mark's email used. =


One more reason to use Unicode more generally -- no codepages anymore :)

Gerhard

-- =

http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive
View/change your membership options at
http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist