Re: Garbled mail on list

On 17/12/09 04:38, John Little wrote:
> Hi
>> | ą cursor in paragraph 1 - delete paragraph 1
>> | ˛ go to start of paragraph 3
>> | ł select paragraph 3 and replace by paragraph 1
>
> Those were garbled in google groups in Firefox. ą = latin small a
> with ogonek, ˛ = ogonek, ł = small l with stroke, all Polish letters.

also (and the same way) when reading list mail as mail on Gmail's POP
server in SeaMonkey (version 2.0.3pre if it makes any difference)

>
>> mailer got to see our superscripts ¹, ², ³ in my case, the way they're
>
> Those are fine.

ditto.

>
> Cheers
>

ą U+0105 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH OGONEK
˛ U+02DB SPACING OGONEK
ł U+0142 LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH STROKE

In ISO-8859-2 ("Central European"), these are respectively encoded as

0xB1, which is plus-minus in Latin1
0xB2, which is superscript-2 in Latin1
0xB3, which is superscript-3 in Latin1

These Latin1 (aka ISO-8859-1) characters are the same in Windows-1252
and also in Latin9 aka ISO-8859-15. All three are "Western" encodings.
None of these bytes is valid in MacRoman AFAIK.

Superscript-1 is 0xB9 in Latin1 (or U+00B9 in Unicode); 0xB9 means š in
ISO-8859-2 (LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON, which in Unicode would be
U+0161).

I suppose that the OP mistyped ± for ¹, and that for some reason his
mailer or browser converted Latin1 (thinking that it was Latin2) to
UTF-8 (which is declared as the post's encoding in its Content-Type header).

Best regards,
Tony.
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