Francois LE COAT wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Hartmut Figge writes :
>> Francois LE COAT:
>>> The problem with UTF-8 encoding happens when you talk in French forums.
>>> Because I register to some newsgroups on the Usenet, I frequently
>>> have the problem with users adopting the UTF-8 character encoding,
>>> and using accentuation. Of course it is not a problem here. Every
>>> accent is badly displayed with 2 unreadable characters, in the message,
>>> and when I reply to the corresponding message, I have to rewrite it.
>>>
>>> This happen since the following bug was corrected :
>>> "
>>> Fixes in Beta 1
>>> The en-US locale now defaults to UTF-8 for outgoing emails (bug 941545).
>>> "
>>> at <http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/seamonkey2.26/changes>
>>>
>>> It happens on the Usenet, but also when receiving or sending emails
>>> with a SMTP server, whatever host system I use (OS X, Linux ...)
>>
>> I will write some chars with accents é Ú ê and try to send this message
>> as utf-8 via Options->Character Encodings. Not sure about the success
>> though because of recent changes to SM.
>>
>> Examples can be very useful. Do you see the problem in the first line of
>> my writing?
>>
>> Hartmut
> 
> You wrote "I will write some chars with accents" ... And 3 separated
> characters I can't read following. That's a problem I often have
> since I installed SeaMonkey 2.26. I often have to guess what is the
> other user meaning, erase the characters, and correct the message.
> 
> This is really embarrassing using accentuated languages, like French.
> And UTF-8 is a very commonly used character encoding on the Usenet.
> 
> Best regards,
> 

This message I am replying to has content type:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hartmut's three characters are not readable. They were readable in his
original post and in my reply to his post. AT least for me anyway.

Dennis

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