RE: RE: RE: The character '҉'

[Dave Korn]

On 28 August 2007 21:56, Morgan  ‪‫‬‭‮‪‫‬‭‮҉ Gangwere  ‪‫‬‭‮‪‫‬‭‮҉ wrote:

> On 8/28/07, Igor Peshansky <pechtcha@҉҉҉҉҉҉҉҉҉> 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:
>>>>>>> âÿÿªâÿÿ«âÿÿ¬âÿÿ­âÿÿ(r)âÿÿªâÿÿ«âÿÿ¬âÿÿ­âÿÿ(r)âÿÿªâÿÿ«âÿÿ¬âÿÿ­âÿÿ(r)âÿÿªâÿÿ«âÿÿ¬âÿÿ­âÿÿ(r)Òÿÿ
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> .retcarahc taht retfa sdrawkcab enog evah dluohs gnihtyreveE  .gnikrow
>>>>>>> s'ti kniht t'nod I ,epoN 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> âÿÿªâÿÿ«âÿÿ¬âÿÿ­âÿÿ(r)âÿÿªâÿÿ«âÿÿ¬âÿÿ­âÿÿ(r)âÿÿªâÿÿ«âÿÿ¬âÿÿ­âÿÿ(r)âÿÿªâÿÿ«âÿÿ¬âÿÿ­âÿÿ(r)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)).
>>> 
>>>   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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>> 
>> Belief can be manipulated.  Only knowledge is dangerous.  -- Frank Herbert
>> ҉
> ҉
> i guess we should add the header "text-encoding:UTF-8" to all messages... ҉
> because it would be really helpful. ҉
> ҉
> ҉
> Daggit. now windows is confused҉

҉҉҉Then it's a lot like ҉me҉, isn't it?҉
 ‪‫‬‭‮‪‫‬‭‮҉
    cheers,
      DaveK
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