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RE: RE: RE: The character 'Ò'
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: 'ââââââââÒwhat's going on????? ââââââââââÒforeards ââââââââââÒbackward s ââââââââââÒsideways' <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:48:59 +0100
- Subject: RE: RE: RE: The character 'Ò'
- References: <4e41f5c20708281356g2748d2b9s13f4f5849c19c1f3@mail.gmail.com>
- Reply-to: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
On 28 August 2007 21:56, Morgan ââââââââââÒ Gangwere ââââââââââÒ wrote:
> On 8/28/07, Igor Peshansky <pechtcha@ÒÒÒÒÒÒÒÒÒ> wrote:
>> On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Dave Korn wrote:
>>
>>> On 28 August 2007 14:24, Igor Peshansky wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Dave Korn wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 27 August 2007 16:53, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Dave Korn wrote:
>>>>>>> Maybe if I try again, in UTF-8 encoding this time. Meanwhile just for
>>>>>>> new content, I hear that corrupt perjurer Gonzales has just resigned.
>>>>>>> Hooray.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I just read about it on tdwtf[*], so I wondered if it would work here
>>>>>>> too.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So then:
>>>>>>> ÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃ(r)ÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃ(r)ÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃ(r)ÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃ(r)ÃÃÃ
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> .retcarahc taht retfa sdrawkcab enog evah dluohs gnihtyreveE .gnikrow
>>>>>>> s'ti kniht t'nod I ,epoN
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃ(r)ÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃ(r)ÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃ(r)ÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃÂÃÃÃ(r)ÃÃÃ
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Oh well, never mind.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Firefox, on Windows, does indeed render the middle text in
>>>>>> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin.talk/3877 (link to the post I
>>>>>> am replying to) in "correct" direction. So it *does* work (yes, UTF8 is
>>>>>> required).
>>>>>
>>>>> My FF doesn't show anything unusual at that page. What version are you
>>>>> using?
>>>>
>>>> You need UTF-8 encoding (View->Character Encoding->Unicode (UTF-8)).
>>>
>>> It picked that automatically anyway. No, it's because I've tried a 1.0.x
>>> and a 1.5.x series FF and Matthew's got 2.x
>>
>> Yes, I used 2.x too.
>>
>>>> OTOH, the Cygwin list web archives seem to be doing some encoding
>>>> translation of their own, as that character looks like a sequence of "a"s
>>>> with circumflexes.
>>>
>>> Every time we quote it in a reply, it gets more and more mangled. I
>>> can hardly wait to see what it does next. (Now setting encoding of this
>>> mail to UTF-7 for extra mungetastic fun!)
>>
>> Ok, I'll bite. BTW, "!" seems to indicate a colon... :-) Oh, what wonders...
>> Igor
>> P.S. We're also accumulating "RE"s...
>> --
>> http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/
>> |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com
>> ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!)
>> |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski
>> '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow!
>>
>> Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous. -- Frank Herbert
>> Ò
> Ò
> i guess we should add the header "text-encoding:UTF-8" to all messages... Ò
> because it would be really helpful. Ò
> Ò
> Ò
> Daggit. now windows is confusedÒ
ÒÒÒThen it's a lot like ÒmeÒ, isn't it?Ò
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cheers,
DaveK
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