From: Tulasi (tulasird@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Jun 29 2010 - 20:10:57 CDT
> What I'm guessing is that message was sent in Latin-15,
> which can't be reliably distinguished from Latin-1.
For how many Latin-'s Euro is "brain-dead" and for how long?
Can you present a correct account without guess?
Tulasi
From: Andreas Prilop <prilop4321@trashmail.net>
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:44:59 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Re: Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today
To: unicode@unicode.org
Full-quoting upside-down, Mark Davis wrote:
> What I'm guessing is that message was sent in Latin-15,
> which can't be reliably distinguished from Latin-1.
How come that all browsers show a euro sign at
http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2010-m06/0372.html
??
I tell you the secret:
It is the "charset" parameter, which is now 18 (eighteen!) years old.
Only Mark Davis and inept Google programmers still don't get it
even in the year 2010.
But it not just the euro sign. Here is the Greek alphabet:
Á Â Ã Ä Å Æ Ç È É Ê Ë Ì Í Î Ï Ð Ñ Ó Ô Õ Ö × Ø Ù
á â ã ä å æ ç è é ê ë ì í î ï ð ñ ó ô õ ö ÷ ø ù
I post this message also to <news:uk.test> so that others
can view at http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk.test/topics
what Google makes out of it.
Nearly all messages from
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/pl.test/browse_thread/thread/cea5fce42379a48e
are correctly treated as ISO-8859-2.
Only my message
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/pl.test/msg/813fd6f1cdfa7d57
is treated as ISO-8859-1. Why?
It seems that the silly Google "algorithm" checks whether a poster
writes from Poland or from Germany.
Groups.google is now infamous in Germany for fucking up special characters.
Just one example is
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/de.comm.provider.usenet/msg/eac9d334f8c32578?dmode=source&output=gplain
All umlauts are fucked up by Google.
I do call this brain-dead.
I call it brain-dead to ignore the charset parameter and
to make silly guesses instead.
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