Richard B. Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Ryan Malayter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Unruh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> That may be what you expect, but you can get it 1usec (1 micro second). >>> Is there something wrong with the mail gateway and Unicode? I posted >>> my message as text/plain with charset=UTF-8, which has been an IETF >>> standard for more than a decade. And my message does, in fact, appear >>> correct with UTF-8 characters such as "l" (Greek Small Letter Mu, >>> Unicode 03BC) in the list archives at: >>> https://lists.ntp.org/pipermail/questions/2008-October/020235.html >>> >>> However, all replies to my message were in 7-bit charset="us-ascii", >>> which of course mangles the non-ASCII chasracters. >>> >>> So is it the pipermail gateway that is not Unicode compliant, or is it >>> the MUAs of the respondents that is at fault? If it is the list >>> itself... well, isn't it absurd to restrict content of a mailing list >>> to 7-bit us-ascii? It is 2008, not 1988. >>> >>> Regards, >> >> This is usenet, not a mailing list. >> >> > > There IS a mailing list for those who prefer mail to news or for those > who don't have access to news. Comcast has announced that it will no > longer offer access to net news effective 28 October 2008.
Yeah, there are lots of groups with a mail gateway. That doesn't change the fact the base is a usenet news group. -- Jim Pennino Remove .spam.sux to reply. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
