Re: RE: RE: The character 'Ò'

["Morgan Gangwere" <0 dot fractalus at gmail dot com>]

On 8/28/07, Igor Peshansky <pechtcha@ÒÒÒÒÒÒÒÒÒ> wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Dave Korn wrote:
>
> > On 28 August 2007 14:24, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Dave Korn wrote:
> > >
> > >> On 27 August 2007 16:53, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Dave Korn wrote:
> > >>>>   Maybe if I try again, in UTF-8 encoding this time.  Meanwhile just for new
> > >>>> content, I hear that corrupt perjurer Gonzales has just resigned.  Hooray.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>   I just read about it on tdwtf[*], so I wondered if it would work here too.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>    So then:
> > >>>> ÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃ(r)ÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃ(r)ÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃ(r)ÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃ(r)ÃÃÃ
> > >>>>
> > >>>> .retcarahc taht retfa sdrawkcab enog evah dluohs gnihtyreveE  .gnikrow s'ti
> > >>>> kniht t'nod I ,epoN
> > >>>>
> > >>>> ÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃ(r)ÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃ(r)ÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃ(r)ÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃ(r)ÃÃÃ
> > >>>>
> > >>>>   Oh well, never mind.
> > >>>
> > >>> Firefox, on Windows, does indeed render the middle text in
> > >>> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin.talk/3877 (link to the post I
> > >>> am replying to) in "correct" direction. So it *does* work (yes, UTF8 is
> > >>> required).
> > >>
> > >>   My FF doesn't show anything unusual at that page.  What version are you
> > >> using?
> > >
> > > You need UTF-8 encoding (View->Character Encoding->Unicode (UTF-8)).
> >
> >   It picked that automatically anyway.  No, it's because I've tried a 1.0.x and a 1.5.x series FF and Matthew's got 2.x
>
> Yes, I used 2.x too.
>
> > > OTOH, the Cygwin list web archives seem to be doing some encoding
> > > translation of their own, as that character looks like a sequence of "a"s
> > > with circumflexes.
> >
> >   Every time we quote it in a reply, it gets more and more mangled.  I
> > can hardly wait to see what it does next.  (Now setting encoding of this
> > mail to UTF-7 for extra mungetastic fun!)
>
> Ok, I'll bite.  BTW, "!" seems to indicate a colon... :-)  Oh, what
> wonders...
>         Igor
> P.S. We're also accumulating "RE"s...
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> Ò
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i guess we should add the header "text-encoding:UTF-8" to all messages... Ò
because it would be really helpful. Ò
Ò
Ò
Daggit. now windows is confusedÒ
-- 
Morgan gangwere

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