--- Richard Wordingham
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

>
> --- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Constable"
> <petercon@...> wrote:
> > > From: Richard Wordingham
> [mailto:richard.wordingham@...]
> >
> >
> > > This post is best viewed in UTF-8
> >
> > 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.

Sadly, mail software seems to be lagging behind the
most in Unicode progress. Especially web-based email
software such as the Yahoo I'm using now and much
web-based mailing list providers.

> 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

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> they can consist of messages with different
> encodings.
>
> For that reason, I try to remember to identify the
> encoding if I stray beyond Latin-1 in a Yahoo groups
> post.
>
> Richard.
>
>
>
>

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