Re: The cent sign

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Wed Mar 06 2002 - 08:20:14 EST


Someone wrote to me:

>It seems that you are tagging your ISO-8859-15 emails as ISO-8859-1. So
>many people with standard compliant email clients will see U+00A4 CURRENCY
>SIGN instead of your intended U+20AC EURO SIGN.
>
>I think this is really bad for a standards guy...

I am writing with Eudora version 5.1b16 for Mac OS X, using the Mac
Roman character set because Eudora doesn't support Unicode. When
Eudora sends mail, it sends as ISO/IEC 8859-1 so far as I know. There
used to be plug-ins for changing transliteration. but these don't
seem to be supported in OS X (I tried them once and it crashed
Eudora).

I wonder what Qualcomm is doing about this? It has been suggested
that I use Apple's Mail program, but I have been using Eudora for
years and like its functionality.

-- 
Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com



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