Re: Test of Unicode APL characters with Mozilla

"Robert Bernecky" <bernecky@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:pan.2005.11.29.21.03.30.422452@xxxxxxxxxx
> On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 18:26:25 +0000, Ray Powell wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> ps: I just tried to send this, and got this from pine:
> "ERROR: line 26, column 4 uses a character not specified in charset
> "ISO-8859-1" -- possibly change your charset in "More Headers" to
"euc-jp"
> instead?"
>
> Of course, it won't post it until I delete Ray's APL code. ARGHHHH!

Bob -- that error message is both right and wrong

according to your headers, you are set up to Send in ISO-8859:

NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:03:32 -0600
From: Robert Bernecky <bernecky@xxxxxxx>
Organization: Snake Island Research Inc
Subject: Re: Test of Unicode APL characters with Mozilla
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:03:31 -0500
User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a
cleansing moment of clarity.)
Message-Id: <pan.2005.11.29.21.03.30.422452@xxxxxxx>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl
References: <snipped>
Reply-To: bernecky@xxxxxxx
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Lines: 58

the recommendation that you switch to euc-jp is perfectly barmy

there is, as we all know, only one good way to map extended character
sets onto 8 bits, and that is to switch to UTF-8 (personally, I have
everything switched to UTF-8, where possible) -- if pine can handle
UTF-8 on the incoming, surely it could do the deed on the outgoing
also?

(having said that, I have reservations about using UTF-8 internally --
I have recently been reading suggestions that the Unix file system
should move to UTF-8 for filenames, &c -- a bit of a mess for Eastern
Asia, I would have thought)

as ever, my best regards . . . /phil

.

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