Re[2]: [tied] Germanic prefixes and Verner's Law [was: German "ge-"

At 7:47:56 PM on Friday, August 8, 2003, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:

> For language Polish, my current settings are that e-mail
> will be sent using either us-ascii or iso-8859-2 (Latin-2,
> "Eastern European"). In the case at hand, Latin-2 was
> obviously chosen ["When Agent formats an outbound message,
> it chooses a charset from the designated list, by picking
> the first charset that most completely encodes the text of
> the message"]. The other options I have are [us-ascii],
> [us-ascii,iso-8859-2,utf-8],
> [us-ascii,utf-8],[us-ascii,utf-7].

> I have now changed the setting to [us-ascii,utf-8], which
> means that if I insert a random Polish character here ...
> z ... the whole message will be encoded in utf-8. What
> does that give?

As you see: plain <z>. My mail program (The Bat) handles
Latin-2 just fine, so far as I can tell; your original list
appeared to have all of the right diacritics. I *may* be
able to get it to handle UTF-8, but not easily, and I'll
have to figure out how.

Brian