Rather than give you a screenshot, here's what inspired my original message:
https://twitter.com/0xabad1dea/status/509748597668446208 The quoted string I was working with was the decorated word 'unicode' extracted from that tweet. What's interesting is that jqt renders it correctly, at least for me (after copying and pasting it from chrome). Thanks, -- Raul On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Dan Bron <[email protected]> wrote: > Raul wrote: >> $ 'u???????ni?c??????_o?d??????e???' >> 57 >> $ 3 u: 'u???????ni?c??????_o?d??????e???' >> 57 >> >./ 3 u: 'u???????ni?c??????_o?d??????e???' >> 205 >> 4 u: 3 u: 'u???????ni?c??????_o?d??????e???' >> uÍžÌ™Ì Í™Ì—Ì—Í–niÌ»c̸̘̼Ì͖̬̲oÍžd̨̮̺̪̩͖e̫̣͘ >> >> Ick... >> >> I wonder how mail agents will mutilate this? > > In my mail reader (which is likely not unicode-aware), the mutiliation > isn't very interesting. > > The quoted strings are mostly question marks (?), and the output is mostly > capital Is with a variety of accents (acute, grave), with a few other > weird symbols mixed in (guillemets, tildes, copyright symbols, trademark > sign, British pound sign). > > Screenshot, if you're interested: http://imgur.com/PVQUdVS > > Looking up the message in the JForum archives [1] using my browser > (Chrome), the story is a little better. > > It seems like your quoted strings came through ok (spelling "unicode" with > some funky diacritics and composed characters), but the output string > looks the same as it does in my mail reader: a bunch of accented capital > Is, etc. > > Screenshot of in-browser rendering: http://imgur.com/DS2cInt > > -Dan > > [1] http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/chat/2014-September/006273.html > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
