On 2/05/11 6:41 PM, Christian Brabandt wrote:
On Mon, May 2, 2011 7:28 am, Ben Schmidt wrote:
I have no idea how they could have got the conversion so wrong, when
it is so beautifully declared, but there you go. Computers! Pfff!
That has been mentioned before. See the thread starting at:
http://groups.google.com/group/vim_use/msg/282220b092f894f5
and
http://groups.google.com/group/vim_use/msg/1d2384d110b4fc1b
It seems, Google groups is broken. Not only does it usually not display
umlauts (it leaves them out in German groups and makes it sometimes
really hard to read), it also mangles them when processing the mails.
I used to use footnotes in my mails. But google groups mangled them so
badly, that I don't use it in this list anymore.
I think it's OK if the mail is sent in UTF-8. If it's sent in some other
encoding, Google Groups tries to convert it to UTF-8 and botches it up.
But if it is in UTF-8 to start with, it's OK. I guess this means if you
go into your mail client settings and set your default encoding to be
UTF-8, you will probably rarely have problems (and most correspondents
will be using software capable of reading UTF-8 these days, too, so you
shouldn't lose much communicability).
Ben.
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