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Re: RE: The character 'ââââââââ ââÒ'
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: âÿÿªâÿÿ«âÿÿ¬âÿÿâÿÿ®âÿÿªâÿÿ«âÿÿ¬âÿÿâÿÿ®âÿÿªâÿÿ«âÿÿ¬âÿÿâÿÿ®âÿÿªâÿÿ«âÿÿ¬âÿÿâÿÿ®Òÿÿ
> >>
> >> .retcarahc taht retfa sdrawkcab enog evah dluohs gnihtyreveE .gnikrow s'ti
> >> kniht t'nod I ,epoN
> >>
> >> âÿÿªâÿÿ«âÿÿ¬âÿÿâÿÿ®âÿÿªâÿÿ«âÿÿ¬âÿÿâÿÿ®âÿÿªâÿÿ«âÿÿ¬âÿÿâÿÿ®âÿÿªâÿÿ«âÿÿ¬âÿÿâÿÿ®Òÿÿ
> >>
> >> 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)).
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.
Igor
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