Wolf Eichler wrote: > Q1) What is the character potential of the mail client editor? That > is: what subset of Unicode can be entered and/or depicted by the mail > editor / mail displayer?
IIRC, the entire Unicode set. > Q2) Is the set of Q1 dependent on the platform and its default > character set? If yes, how? The character set is taken into account when you send the message, if you have asked the message to be sent in a character set that doesn't contain the character you want it will be substituted. For instance, the � character would be replaced by EUR if we were using the ISO-8859-1 character set. However, this message is in ISO-8859-15 which I hope should let you see the character correctly. > Q3) What instance generates the character images (on screen) for HTML > clients when local platforms' native character set is far narrower > than the HTML charset? I think that Mozilla will subsitute for missing characters. > Q4) What defines the relation between the set of Q1 and the platform's > input device, i.e. the keyboard? In the HTML editor, any unicode character may be entered in decimal form using Insert/HTML and a &#nnnn; code. In the plain text editor, you can paste in unicode copied from elsewhere, such as the browser, editor, or the Character Map utility.
