Hallo Keith,
On Sunday, October 17, 1999, 2:24:23 PM, Keith Russell wrote:
>>> Yes... This is interesting. As expected, the subject line in the
>>> message you sent me is garbage until I run UnionWay AsianSuite and set
>>> it to Big 5; the subject then becomes good, readable Chinese.
>>>
>>> However, if I then "Show Kludges", the subject is identified as
>>> ISO-8859-1, in contrast to the subject header below, which correctly
>>> identifies it as Big 5.
>> It in fact doesn't matter. Two cases:
>> 1. with ISO-8859-1 it supposedly works this way:
[...]
>> 2. with Big5 (or any other double-byte encoding) it works as it
>> should, look through RFCs (again, RFCs 2045--2048).
KR> When you say "it doesn't matter" above, do you mean:
KR> 1. Even with ISO-8859-1, it will display properly, or
KR> 2. The RFCs say it doesn't matter.
KR> In other words, is this standard-compliant behavior?
I don't know this either. Would like to ask Steve for a comment, as
you are very firm with the RFC's.
>> And another thing: I cannot understand, where [the hell] TB
>> leads to errors? What happens if you specify ISO-8859-1 as
>> the default encoding, then modify the X-LAT for ISO-8859-1 to
>> use the proper font and script? Now if you try to send the
>> message in DBL to yourself, can you read it? Can somebody
>> else read it? And why?
KR> Good questions.
I can read and write Chinese (or my secreatary can, rather) with
ISO-8859-1 as default encoding. C-win does the rest.
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