Re: Canon's latest horror: Black pixels in 5D II

ASAAR wrote:
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:09:39 -0800, John McWilliams wrote:

Did the HTML or whatever precede this or follow it? Oh wait, you
won't see this, since just like SMS, you use your KF to avoid having
to face reality, or see anyone getting on your case when you're
either wrong or obnoxious.
Check out my post up thread. There's a setting in the headers that some newsclients pick up and make the display different from plain plain text.

I guess you're referring to

It's probably this line, inserted by OE:

Text/plain; format=flowed; charset="windows-1253"; reply-type=original

You may be on to something there if it's that charset that you're
referring to. But I noticed several odd things about this. One
informative web page indicated that the windows-1253 encoding might
be used, with a caveat :

In contexts like E-mail message headers and HTTP headers where
the encoding used should be announced, one could then in principle
use either iso-8859-7 or windows-1253. The former would refer to
an international standard and the latter to a code invented by a
software vendor. On the other hand, that vendor's products are
rather widely used, so announcing a document as windows-1253
encoded might be a more practical solution. But this suggestion
applies only to the information about encoding; the above
recommendation of not using "Windows specific" or otherwise
unsafe characters still applies.

http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/unicode/greek.html

and on another web page there was the suggestion that the use of
windows-1252 (2, not 3) should be avoided.


http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t300384-disadvantages-of-using-windows1252-codepage.html


Oddly, I noticed that code pages aren't constant, and I wouldn't
expect people to frequently redefine the character sets used by
their newsreaders. G Paleologopoulos uses OE, sometimes with
windows-1252 and sometimes with windows-1253. Paul Furman uses
Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Windows/20081105) and his some of his replies
use windows-1253 while others use the ISO-8859-1 charset.

I very rarely see different fonts on usenet, not in this case. My email sees html and asks if I want to reply in plain text (I almost always say yes unless a table depends on it).

Alan uses
the same version of Thunderbird as Paul, but for the Mac. and
appears to use only ISO-8859-1, but when using a previous version
(Thunderbird 1.0.6) switched between ISO-8859-1 and windows-1252.
Perhaps the switching is due to having and using several installed
newsreaders, each with slightly different configurations.


I thought it was simply unwelcoming to have pointed it out,
anyhow, I hope this is done.

Some people see helpful advice as negative criticism, others
don't. Trying to help is always a gamble, risking unintended
offense, although with some it's no gamble - you know in advance
that they'll probably take offense. Someone should write a song to
help decide what to do, maybe ending with lines like those from The
Gambler's* "You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em.
Know when to walk away, know when to run."

* lyrics attributed to Bobby Bare, Kenny Rogers, Don Schlitz and
possibly others.



--
Paul Furman
www.edgehill.net
www.baynatives.com

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