On 19/12/00 1:42 am, "Eric Hildum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At a guess, the message is encoded as utf-8, which means unicode.
It seems like it is,
> However,
> the font you are using to display the message is not a complete unicode font
> (i.e. does not contain a character glyph for every possible unicode
> character) so it is possible that some portions of the message are not
> displayable. Most of the time, the fonts used on English language versions
> of the operating system contain glyphs only for the Latin-1 character set.
> In your case, the message only contained characters that your selected font
> could display, so you were safe.
>
> As an example, you might have trouble with the following for most default
> installations: これは日本語です。This is a mix of hiragana and kanji. If you
> install the Japanese language kit, you will be able to see, and print, the
> message correctly (and if you can read Japanese, you could read it!).
I can see it, I can print it, but I can't read it!!
Setting the character set manually to UTF-8 sorted the problem. Dan is
looking into why it happened.
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