> On Mon, May 2, 2011 7:28 am, Ben Schmidt wrote:
>> I have no idea how they could have got the conversion so wrong, when
>> it is so beautifully declared, but there you go. Computers! Pfff!
>
> That has been mentioned before. See the thread starting at:
> http://groups.google.com/group/vim_use/msg/282220b092f894f5
> and
> http://groups.google.com/group/vim_use/msg/1d2384d110b4fc1b
>
> It seems, Google groups is broken. Not only does it usually not display
> umlauts (it leaves them out in German groups and makes it sometimes
> really hard to read), it also mangles them when processing the mails.
>
> I used to use footnotes in my mails. But google groups mangled them so
> badly, that I don't use it in this list anymore.
I think it's OK if the mail is sent in UTF-8. If it's sent in some other
encoding, Google Groups tries to convert it to UTF-8 and botches it up.
But if it is in UTF-8 to start with, it's OK. I guess this means if you
go into your mail client settings and set your default encoding to be
UTF-8, you will probably rarely have problems (and most correspondents
will be using software capable of reading UTF-8 these days, too, so you
shouldn't lose much communicability).
Ben.
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