Re: Charset type (Test messages)

On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 06:52:20 -0500, Richard Wordingham
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

> UTF-8 fails for a browser sender

Not always.

"Toys 'Я' Us" <-- to force sending in utf-8 without redefining my default.

My point is not to promote Opera, but to say that it does work. One can
send in roughly 45 encodings, specifiable right in the e-mail header.

> The only workable solution seems to be post by e-mail, which is not an
> option I like. I much prefer working from the browser.

I always do.

> I would like to be wrong, so if there is a way to post mixed script
> messages from a browser, please tell me what it is.

Not to promote -- try Opera.

> It collides if you send UTF-8 down a channel expecting ISO-8859 bytes.

Apparently that's why the mojibake doubled in size every time a message
passed through YahooGroups. (That mojibake began as so-called "smart
quotes", iirc).

> I believe UTF-7 is designed to pass down such channels.

I'm surely no expert, but that looks right.

> How do I hack into the Yahoo system to change the way they convert
> postings in the web page to e-mails? Isn't that illegal?

If I understood the suggestion, it was to use CSS at the viewer's computer
to modify how the Yahoo page was displayed. I still have oodles to learn
about CSS, but it's really worth knowing about. In any half-decent
browser, CSS can modify the presentation dramatically.

I do understand, in general, how you feel. I remember installing Codepage
850 to read the Early Music List, which used Latin-1. Argh!

--
Nicholas Bodley /*|*\ Waltham, Mass.
The curious hermit -- autodidact and polymath