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 -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:252/67) +44(0)1442-828255 tony@<surname>.co.uk http://firshman.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 Skype: tonyfirshman TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm