Re: OT: Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

[Wulfy <wulfmann@tiscali.co.uk>]

Digby Tarvin wrote:
> ISO is not the same as text. Most character sets only display ASCII 
> in a standard way.
>   
Unicode is text...  just not ASCII.
> When I read your original message I see a Cyrillic capital 'D' between
> the 'J' and the 'germeister'. If I use vi or cat to view the message, I
> see 'J=E4germeister' or 'J0xe4germeister', which is less than clear..
>   
Not if you have your locale set to a UTF-8 locale like en_GB-UTF-8...
> If you want your message to be understood by people that are not using
> graphical applications to read their email then it is best to stick to
> ASCII text. 
>   
I looked at his original message using both vi and cat.  It came through 
OK.  It's a matter of locale and fonts not "text".
> I am in the UK, but I never try to use shift-3 to insert a pound symbol
> into an email, because I know that not everyone uses a compatable character
> set.
>
> Of course in a person to person email, if you know what your correspondent
> is using then it is OK, but definately a bad idea on a public list.
>
> Regards,
> DigbyT
>   
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