Re: Germanic prefixes and Verner's Law [was: German "ge-" before pa

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
wrote:

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

My main gripe was that it's not immediately obvious what iso-8859-2
means in terms of Internet Explorer settings - it doesn't use such
names. The other problem is that encodings can get lost, as
happened to Brian.

Richard.