Re: Character Sets (was: Labiovelars versus Palatals + Labiovelar Ap

At 7:13:34 AM on Saturday, November 1, 2008, Richard
Wordingham wrote:

[...]

> Fortunately, if persues the options on the page supplied
> one can find the encoding of the original e-mail (which is
> generated by Yahoo when one replies using a browser) - to
> me, 'Simplified Chinese' is not an obvious guess.

This isn't the first time that I've seen it used where you
wouldn't expect it, e.g., to provide 'greater than or equal
to' signs. The last one that I noticed was posted to Usenet
via Google Groups. I suspect that in neither case was the
choice made by the user; GB2312 is more storage-efficient
than UTF-8, which may explain its use.


Brian