1. The link "http://groups.google.co.uk/group/de.test/msg/e027e91e7ef17f62"; doesn't appear to go to a public page. What I'm guessing is that message was sent in Latin-15, which can't be reliably distinguished from Latin-1. (UTF-8 would be much better of course.)
2. I find it a bit over the top to be referenced as "brain-dead". I do have some off days, of course, but few of them drop to quite that point. Mark — Il meglio è l’inimico del bene — On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 07:54, Andreas Prilop <[email protected]>wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jun 2010, I wrote > > > Even in the year 2010, the euro sign (€) doesn't work reliably. > > in both the Unicode list and in the newsgroup de.test. > > unicode.org shows a euro sign: > http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2010-m06/0372.html > > groups.google.com shows a currency sign: > http://groups.google.co.uk/group/de.test/msg/e027e91e7ef17f62 > > > Mark Davis called this an "algorithm" in > http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2010-m01/0273.html > > I call it brain-dead. > > -- > Inept programmers are not fired by Google; > they must work at groups.google.com. > >
