On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 7:50 AM, Richard B. Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you. I REALLY didn't want to have to learn to read Greek! And > who knows how the computer would render Greek characters if you did send > them!!
There is a 99.9% chance OS supports Unicode, and most likely so do your fonts. The computer should render them perfectly. I think the issue is with the mail-to-NNTP gateway, which seems to add a 7-bit header to an 8-bit UTF-8 message, which is downright silly in 2008. This is a technical forum. Mathematical and other symbols which are very useful in such a setting. (μ, Σ, ², √, etc.) . UTF-8 supports these well. UTF-8 is supported by all modern MUAs, and all modern MTAs, and should be supported by all news readers and servers as well. UTF-8 also allows the names of many forum members to be displayed properly, which is certainly common courtesy and not possible with US-ASCII. There are, for example, lots of Germanic and Scandinavian names amongst the participants, and it appears at least some of those names would properly include umlauts (such as ü). Finally, UTF-8 is at most a few percent larger than US-ASCII for English text (only non-ASCII characters are multi-byte), so that is not really a concern. Is this just a setting that could to be changed on the email-to-NNTP gateway? -- RPM _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
