Re: Usage of CP1252 characters on www.msnbc.com

From: Mark Davis (mark_davis@taligent.com)
Date: Mon Jul 14 1997 - 12:34:28 EDT


Why don't you let people compose with UTF-8?

Mark

Yung-Fong Tang wrote:

> Unicode Discussion wrote:
>
> > Unicode Discussion wrote:
> >
> > > >Speaking of this, I just tried composing a message with NS
> > > Communicator
> > > >with some interesting characters in it, setting the encoding on
> the
> >
> > > >message to UTF-8.
> > > >
> > > >Examples:
> > > >
> > > >Punctuation: +IBw-What?+IB0gFSAY-Huh+IBk-
> > >
> > > Either Communicator has a bug or you selected UTF-7...
> > >
> > > David Goldsmith
> > > Architect
> > > International, Text, and Graphics Group
> > > Apple Computer, Inc.
> > > goldsmith@apple.com
> >
> > You're right. I believe that NSC has a bug in it; it seems to result
>
> > in
> > UTF-7, even though I selected UTF-8.
>
> No, this is not really a bug. We simply don't allow you send out email
>
> in certain encoding. We always convert UTF8 back to UTF7 when we send
> out email. We should probably take out (or grey out some item ) in the
>
> encoding menu when user do mail composition.
>
> >
> >
> > Mark
> > +MAA-
> >
> >
> >
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