From: ÁëÝîáíäñïò Äéáìáíôßäçò (adia@hellug.gr)
Date: Sun Feb 06 2011 - 18:34:37 CST
* Michael Everson [2011-02-06 23:55]:
> On 6 Feb 2011, at 23:52, Leo Broukhis wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com> wrote:
> >> Pleased to announce a new blog, http://žorn.info
> >
> > The domain name in the subject is correct, the URL isn't. How come?
>
> Evidently some encoding difficulty on the part of your mail software, which transformed þ into ž. I sent out the correct character, http://þorn.info
The original message was correctly tagged as ISO-8859-1, but it looks
like both people responding saw it interpreted as ISO-8859-13. Judging
from the Message-IDs, both seem to be posting from Gmail, so this must be
an example of Google's encoding guessing, which has been discussed here
in the past: since many web pages and mail messages in other encodings
are mistagged as ISO-8859-1, Google uses various heuristics which are
easy to go wrong when there's only a few non-ASCII characters in the
text.
As I recall, posting in UTF-8 makes the problem go away, although it's
hard to find fault with Apple Mail for going with the most conservative
and appropriate encoding for the content (i.e. ISO-8859-1).
Alexandros
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