> From: Richard Wordingham [mailto:richard.wordingham@...]


> > Is there a problem with the site settings or something? Messages

sent to

> > the list encoded in UTF-8 are getting re-tagged as being is ISO

8859-1.

>
> Possibly with HTML. I don't think there is an official way to say
> what encoding is being used when replying via the web page.

I've sent plain-text messages from Outlook in UTF-8, and got them back
in ISO 8859-1.

> Yahoo groups web pages don't specify an encoding. Even if they did, I
> don't think that different sections in a page can have different
> encodings. There would be a similar problem with daily digests - they
> can consist of messages with different encodings.

No, they can't, but they don't need to: the whole thing can simply be in
UTF-8.

> For that reason, I try to remember to identify the encoding if I stray
> beyond Latin-1 in a Yahoo groups post.

Yahoo is pretty lame in this regard, IMO. Members should never have to
mention the encodings. Neither Peter Daniels nor anyone else should have
to know how this car works. It should just work.



Peter