Re: 'dyeus'

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "t0lgsoo1" <guestuser.0x9357@...> wrote:

> The funny thing is that my browser is setted UTF-8 *by default*, and
> in spite of that it renders ... funny characters as soon as I post
> messages via yohoogroups.com. (Some of them are repaired, but
> only some of them, whenever I switch to ISO-8859-2. Jumpin' tootin'
> blazes! :-))

The problem is that Yahoo assumes that postings from the web are in Windows-1252 and straightens quotes, thereby mangling between 6% and 12% of characters. ISCII and ISO-8859 encodings have no problems with the web interface, provided you aren't using opera.

Richard.