Mike Hoye wrote:
On 2013-08-30 3:17 PM, Adam Roach wrote:
On 8/30/13 14:11, Adam Roach wrote:
...helping the user understand why the headline they're trying to
read renders as "Ð' Ð"оÑ?дÑfме пÑEURедложили
оÑ,обÑEURаÑ,ÑOE "Ð?обелÑ?" Ñf Ðz(бамÑ< " rather than "?
??????? ?????????? ???????? "??????" ? ?????".
Well, *there's* a heavy dose of irony in the context of this thread.
I wonder what rules our mailing list server applies for character set
decimation.
When I sent that out, the question marks were a perfectly readable
string of Cyrillic characters.
Which provides a strong object lesson in the fact that character set
configuration is hard. If we can't get this right internally, I think
we've lost the moral ground in saying that others should be able to,
and tough luck if they can't.
For what it's worth, the original came through Thunderbird as a
perfectly legitimate string of Russian at my end:
??????? ?? ????? ????, ??????? ?? ??????? ????, ??????? ?? ???? ??????
? ???? ??????. ??????? ?? ???????? ???? ???????, ??????? ?? ??????? ??
????????, ?????? ??????? ?? ???? ????? ??? ? ???????.
I just see question marks here, but then again the headers in both
messages declare a character set of ISO-8859-1.
As for the original message, it seems to have been corrupted, for
instance € characters have been turned into EUR. Maybe it got
"converted" from Windows-1252 (which has the € character) into
ISO-8859-1(which does not)?
(I remembered at the last minute to change my character coding to
something other than ISO-8859-1 so hopefully those euro signs pass
through intact.)
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