Ooops I suppose the font is still X-UNKNOWN in header Hi Bastiaan
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ wrote: > What is wrong in using >128 ASCII?> At the beginnings of the e-mailing, they used serial protocols to connect computers to one another. They chose to use the seven-bit with parity serial transmission type. To transmit upper ascii char was impossible without using some sort of 7 bit encoding. Such type of transmission may be still used today somewhere, so, that's why one can't attach plain binary files to messages and has to use MIME or UUEncode to do that. MIME and UU encode the file using only lower ascii chars. The recommedations are not to use 8 bit chars in any of the message headers, anyway, because some equipment may misinterpret them, or reject the message. Allowing 8 bit chars in message headers is not a default setting for mail servers (this has to be turned on). The server must be instructed from the header through the content-type line to allow 8 bit at least in the message's body. Arachne keeps the content-type line as 7 bit even if the encoding is 8 bit (!). It should be either 8-bit or quoted-printable > Why where the codepages messed up anyway and who did that? Bill...?? > > � = 196 > � = 214 > � = 220 > � = 228 > � = 246 > � = 252 > The 256 available 8-bit chars are not enough to display all symbols, even for the latin alphabet. Unicode was created to solve this problem. Even the ISO-8859-2 standard is wrong for us, Romanians. They mistook some letters from our alphabet as being accented. They are not, they are real letters. The ISO guys invented the t with cedilla (,t) and s with cedilla (,s), guiding themselves after french cedilla in "fran,cais". In reality these ought to have some sort of comma underneath (at least t with a wide cedilla underneath looks really bad). These two letters express sounds: ,s is "sh" and ,t is "tz". Windows CP1252 solved this problem. It draws them correctly, but, in the purest Microsoft tradition, they scrambbled the places of a few letters. At least "sh" took the place corresponding to the "degree" symbol in ISO-8859-2. It is a bit difficult to switch between the two standards Best regards Cristian > This displays OK in Arachne and other browsers... even in HTML instead > of the &#... I often type Alt 246 for &#... (246) > > Well I will try the &#... type in the To: field > � (Alt 181) = µ = micro > > Let's see what happens > > Bastiaan > >
