Yes, but it actually was Greek. I know just enough Greek to tell that
it was (mostly) correct Greek - it was not a character encoding
problem.

Sean


On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Gerhard
Fiedler<lists@connectionbrazil.com> wrote:
> 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
>
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