Re: I'm sure glad I didn't buy a Mac Mini!


"C Lund" <clund@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:clund-5AE6D1.16324115032008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In article <StydnZ2oeuBZQUbanZ2dnUVZ_gednZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Hasta La Vista" <noemail@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"C Lund" <clund@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> >> >> > Yep. Reason? OSX.
>> >> >> How is that a reason to pay so much more for a computer?
>> >> > Because you want to *use* your computer.
>> >> How is it you're exchanging messages with me if OSX is required to
>> >> *use*
>> >> a computer?
>> > Because you're happy with "usually works, sorta".
>> No I'm not.
> An example of "usually works, sorta" is when I send an email to
> somebody using Outlook. If that email contains european characters,
> such as æ, ø, or å, there's a pretty good chance that Outlook will
> replace them with chinese characters. This is because of MS's crappy
> implementation of UTF-8. I think this might also be a problem with
> Word.
It might be an example if it actually were true.

It *is* true. Try googling the topic and you'll find others who
experience the same things. Hey, I'll even google one for you:

It's not true for me, and I'm the one you claimed was happy with "usually works, sorta," not some other person you found via Google.

"A problem in a current Rails app just found a decent solution, as
Danish letters like æøå did not show up decently. It turned out
(surprise) that Outlook had a problem accepting UTF-8 charset."

http://justaddwater.dk/2007/11/21/converting-utf-8-data-to-outlook-comp
atible-charset/

I have no trouble seeing
your æ, ø or å as they should be, and I can easily type them back to you.

Good for you. There are people I email regularly who do have the
problem I described. Just because you are lucky enough to have a
Windows system that can handle these letters doesn't mean that
everybody does. It just means that Windows isn't consistent.

You didn't find a problem with Windows, you found a problem with Outlook, which is merely an application running on Windows.

You seemed to have ignored that your reference gave you an easy way around your problem, namely to use ISO-8859-1 instead of UTF - 8.

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