Re: Cross-platform e-mail text size problems

Dave Balderstone wrote:
In article <isw-FC3E27.20540420062008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, isw
<isw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It sounds like you're saying to not use unicode; is that correct? How do you communicate with folks in other countries?

Why do you think unicode text means HTML or RTF?

What has confused you?



I am under the impression that only the most widely used Western European languages' diacritics are included in "plain text". Scandinavian languages, Irish, and Central and Eastern European diacritics and characters require formatting in utf-8. Mozilla Thunderbird reinforces this impression whenever I forget to so format a message sent to this group, since I have just such diacritics in my signature: it warns me that some characters will be lost in transmission unless reformatted. Formerly, ISO-8859-* served individual languages and language families, but I suppose all those *'s to have been supplanted by utf-8.


I never worry about receiving HTML-formatted messages on a Mac, since I think I know better than to click on links in such messages. Many commercial enterprises I use send me such messages (my local grocery store, nationally known office supply merchants, electronics firms, charitable organizations, etc.) I just read the messages and then delete them. That's how I know about sales.


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