On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Sean Breheny wrote: > 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. Anyway, in Polish (and in almost all European languages) most characters are the same to the English ones (Latin characters) therefore you would recognize that it was Polish even if the encoding was wrong. Tamas > > > Sean > > > On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Gerhard > Fiedler wrote: > > pual paul wrote: > > > >> Those Encoding things, like magics! Sometime, totally out of > >> control! About 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 !!!! > > > > 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 > > ). 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 > > > > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- http://www.mcuhobby.com -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist