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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tolgs001" <george_st@...> wrote:
> But why does Unicode not work?! (From the Macintosh platform it seems
> to work better. Encodings under Linux are the words. Seemingly.)
Unicode does work with the following provisos:
1) You must post via e-mail, not the Yahoo web interface.
2) You must be prepared for the reader to have to manually select Unicode.
Some browsers (e.g. Firefox) almost work with Unicode when posting
from the web interface, but with the following problems:
1) Yahoo assumes the bytes are in Windows-1252 and converts curly
single and double quotes to apostrophe and quote. This typically
corrupts 6% of characters. The post is then recorded as being in
ISO-8859-1.
2) You must be prepared for the user to manually select Unicode.
ISO-8859 encodings do work, but with problem (2) above.
For these reasons, we urge the use of ISO-8859-1 in posts, and request
that when another encoding is used, the post contain, in plain text,
an identification of the encoding used.
Actually, there is a way for Microsoft-haters to send uncorrupted
Unicode from the web interface. Use the Firefox browser (at least, on
Windows) and select the UTF-7 encoding. However, this will not work
if you do not believe that Internet Explorer users should be precluded
from reading your posts.
Richard.