Re: etymology of Ancient Greek Topos

From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 70916
Date: 2013-02-10

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Bhrihskwobhloukstroy wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, Your script can't be read by some intermediate
> conversion device; may I pray You to type either with Unicode coding
> or at least in simple ASCII?
>
> 2013/2/10, tigeradolf :
> >
> >
> > there are those cases:
> > *dÊ°eiǵʰ- -> τεá¿â€"χος

The post may be read at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/70912 by telling your browser that the page is in UTF-8.

The problem is that when posting via the Yahoo Groups web interface, the byte stream received is taken to be in Windows-1252 and is then partially converted to ISO-8859-1 and labelled as such in the e-mail message. If one receives the post by e-mail, it is then necessary to tell one's e-mail agent that the post is mislabelled and is actually in UTF-8.

Yahoo groups is set up for ISI-2022 encodings, of which the ISO-8859-x encodings are the commonest. UTF-8 is not compatible with ISO-2022. UTF-7 worked better, but UTF-7 support has largely been dropped.

Richard.