On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 at 09:45:27, Phoebus R. Dokos wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>Ôçí Mon, 09 Jan 2006 15:58:59 -0500,ï(ç) Tony Firshman
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ýãñáøå:
>>
>> Can we please please give up trying to use anything other than plain
>> text (8-)#
>The problem is that (at least I) need mostly to write mails in Greek.
>It
>is a terrible pain to go back and forth... Most I can do to compromise
>is
>to remove the Greek version of my name from my "From:" header... (How
>does
>that look?)
A lot better Ýãñáøå (8-)#
^---- does that look OK to you?
... and for some reason the quoting is working.
There is a very nicely written document on the problems of character
sets:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/printerFriendly/articles/Unicode.html
I like the line " .....if you're still programming that way, then you're
not much better than a medical doctor that doesn't believe in germs"
There are many other similar witticisms littered in the article. The
most entertaining (and well written) technical document I have ever
read, and I read it all.
As he says, it is mandatory reading.
For the reasons outlined there, Worldnews are using UTF-8 now for all
news. It does not increase the stored size of English (and American) at
all. Any non-UTF-8 (the majority we collect) is converted to UTF-8
before being added the database.
Tony
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