On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 23:41:55 -0500, Peter Constable
<petercon@...> wrote:

> Wow! Finally something came through with the right encoding. I see all
> the characters intact.

Glad to help!

Again, not primarily to be promotional, but Opera's e-mail created the
message, sending with a utf-8 tag in the message's full header.
(Do all Qalamites know what is meant by a full header? I much prefer the
point of view that says there is no such thing as a dumb question.)(Some
of mine could be considered on the "dumb" side, I think. One recent, basic
confusion was handled gracefully. :) )

Trying to create a message using Yahoo Web mail was not as successful,
though.

If someone wants another test, using some reasonable number of characters,
I'm willing to create it. "U+" numbers in hex are just fine; much easier,
in fact. I should be able to simply use your numbers (easier without the
"U+" prefix) to enter them, using the special left-Alt+x function in
Opera e-mail. That would mean no re-keying.

Although I plan to buy and install James Kass' big font (Code 2001?), for
now, my repertoire only contains Arial Unicode, which is not quarter bad.
(ESL: "quarter bad": "Not half bad" is a witty way of saying something is
really rather good; I'm having fun, implying that Arial Unicode is quite
nice.)

(Should I try to write, or find, a gentle, easy intro. to "hex"
(hexidecimal, radix-16, base-16; all the same thing) for the Qalam pages
on Yahoo?) Btw, although "hexadecimal" is the commonplace spelling,
nevertheless, I once read, not long after IBM publicized it, that the "a"
is not linguistically correct.

Computer people spell differently*:

Compatable (After all, Web authors often create tables; I'm still
mystified by what the "compa" prefix signifies...)
Kernal (actually, Commodore seemed to standardize on that. When I called
them, they were quite surprised. One feisty columnist insisted that it's a
variant spelling.)
Referer (def'n.:) One who becomes afraid once more. (That follows English
pronunciation rules.) An officially-recognized spelling, in a Web-related
standard.

*"Tongue-in-cheek" mode

My best to all!

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