Re: Guillements in Email

2014-05-02 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
Sorry for not replying in the thread, and jumping in general, i'm currently «jolly well fed up» of dealing with mail, but... Philippe Verdy wrote: |I do not criticize the fact of using quoted-printable; but the |fact that of NOT using it to preserve characters; based on an |arbitrary selecti

Re: Guillements in Email

2014-05-02 Thread Philippe Verdy
I don't know when this option was introduced; anyway the French translation of this option is confusive/incoherent and if I have used it in the past, I suspect the translation was reversed sometime. Thanks for pointing it in the Gmail settings. The bug remains though 2014-05-02 20:01 GMT+02:00 Ma

Re: Guillements in Email

2014-05-02 Thread Markus Scherer
If there is a Gmail bug, then please report it. Either way, I suggest you go into Gmail Settings and set it to "Use Unicode (UTF-8) encoding for outgoing messages" markus ___ Unicode mailing list Unicode@unicode.org http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/u

Re: Guillements in Email

2014-05-02 Thread Philippe Verdy
Yes I know But in the first message it was not used. I do not criticize the fact of using quoted-printable; but the fact that of NOT using it to preserve characters; based on an arbitrary selection of characters that Google considers worth preserving only when they appear in combination of other c

Re: Guillements in Email

2014-05-02 Thread Richard Wordingham
On Fri, 2 May 2014 17:57:37 +0200 Philippe Verdy wrote: > Apparently not. There's a difference: Gmail now used > quoted-printable, that preserves these guillemets (as =AB and =BB) > even if they are still encoded with ISO8859-1 (without replacement by > ASCII pairs of symbols). Using quoted-prin

Re: Guillements in Email

2014-05-02 Thread Philippe Verdy
Apparently not. There's a difference: Gmail now used quoted-printable, that preserves these guillemets (as =AB and =BB) even if they are still encoded with ISO8859-1 (without replacement by ASCII pairs of symbols). In the previous message, Gmail thought that quoted-printable was not needed for ju

Guillements in Email

2014-05-02 Thread Richard Wordingham
On Fri, 2 May 2014 16:57:36 +0200 Philippe Verdy wrote: > The email was sent from Gmail on its webmail, French edition. > May be Gmail is causing this, this is not expected and I don't know > why Gmail transforms the text to ISO 8859-1 (without breaking the > text without notice, it could had use

Re: Unclear text in the UBA (UAX#9) of Unicode 6.3

2014-05-02 Thread Philippe Verdy
The email was sent from Gmail on its webmail, French edition. May be Gmail is causing this, this is not expected and I don't know why Gmail transforms the text to ISO 8859-1 (without breaking the text without notice, it could had used windows-1252, which has completely superseded ISO 8859-1 along w