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Welsh language - ISO-8859-1 or Unicode ? Simon 06-24-2008
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Posted by on June 25, 2008, 4:14 am
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 Simon wrote:

> I've just found a webpage that uses y-circumflex at the end
> of the third paragraph, so it can't be that uncommon:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/welsh/hi/newsid_7460000/newsid_7462500/7462534.stm

That’s really odd! They have a “y with circumflex” (ŷ)
but write “vowel with ASCII apostrophe” instead of
“vowel with acute” throughout.

Btw:
You should start with your newsreader^W Outlook Express
in supporting special, non-ASCII characters:

Tools → Options → Send
Mail Sending Format → Plain Text Settings → Message format MIME
News Sending Format → Plain Text Settings → Message format MIME
Encode text using: None

Otherwise you cannot even write or quote

1 € = 100 ¢

Posted by Blinky the Shark on June 25, 2008, 5:17 am
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Holy crap. I'm looking at two of your posts, and both in the body and in
the article's line in the headers pane, your name is not in the font I
have configured. And it's a *different* not-configured-by-me font in the
body than in the headers pane.


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Posted by Harlan Messinger on June 25, 2008, 11:22 am
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Blinky the Shark wrote:
> Holy crap. I'm looking at two of your posts, and both in the body and in
> the article's line in the headers pane, your name is not in the font I
> have configured. And it's a *different* not-configured-by-me font in the
> body than in the headers pane.

I noticed the same thing, in Thunderbird.

Posted by Harlan Messinger on June 25, 2008, 11:49 am
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Harlan Messinger wrote:
> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>> Holy crap. I'm looking at two of your posts, and both in the body and in
>> the article's line in the headers pane, your name is not in the font I
>> have configured. And it's a *different* not-configured-by-me font in the
>> body than in the headers pane.
>
> I noticed the same thing, in Thunderbird.

His FROM line reads

From: =?UTF-8?B?77yh772O772E772S772F772B772T44CA77yw772S772J772M772P772Q?=

I don't know what to make of this.

Posted by Ben Bacarisse on June 25, 2008, 12:01 pm
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> Harlan Messinger wrote:
>> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>>> Holy crap. I'm looking at two of your posts, and both in the body and in
>>> the article's line in the headers pane, your name is not in the font I
>>> have configured. And it's a *different* not-configured-by-me font in the
>>> body than in the headers pane.
>>
>> I noticed the same thing, in Thunderbird.
>
> His FROM line reads
>
> From: =?UTF-8?B?77yh772O772E772S772F772B772T44CA77yw772S772J772M772P772Q?=
>
> I don't know what to make of this.

If I cut and paste to my utf-8-dump program:

$ utf-8-dump -f '[%u] %n\n'
Ａｎｄｒｅａｓ　
[U+FF21] FULLWIDTH LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A
[U+FF4E] FULLWIDTH LATIN SMALL LETTER N
[U+FF44] FULLWIDTH LATIN SMALL LETTER D
[U+FF52] FULLWIDTH LATIN SMALL LETTER R
[U+FF45] FULLWIDTH LATIN SMALL LETTER E
[U+FF41] FULLWIDTH LATIN SMALL LETTER A
[U+FF53] FULLWIDTH LATIN SMALL LETTER S
[U+3000] IDEOGRAPHIC SPACE
[U+000A] <control>

Presumably your newsreader thinks it needs a separate font to find
suitable gyphs for these characters (mine does too).

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Ben.

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