Re: Garbled mail on list

On 30/01/10 09:53, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> Hi Tony!
>
> On Sa, 30 Jan 2010, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
>
>> I suppose that the OP mistyped ą for š, 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).
>
> As this happened to me too, I can assure you, I did not mistype it. They
> are saved alright in my outbox. Google groups must have scrambled it,
> possibly when adding it's list footer.
>
> regards,
> Christian
>

It got garbled again. I had typed in UTF-8: ...mistyped [plus-minus] for
[superscript-one]... and after the round-trip to you it comes back as:
...mistyped [a-ogonek] for [s-caron]...

Confusion between Latin1 and Latin2 could have explained it, but my mail
was sent to the list in UTF-8, and yours came back to me in UTF-8 (as
shown by their respective Content-Type headers)... I wonder how your
mutt is set up, or your Vim if you use that to edit mail.

AFAIK there's nothing in this footer which would explain "convert from
UTF-8 to Latin1 then convert the same text from Latin2 to UTF-8".

Best regards,
Tony.
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A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling
by Mark Twain

For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped
to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer
be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained
would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2
might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the
same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with
"i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all.
Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear
with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12
or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants.
Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi
ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz
ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud
hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.

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