Re: Typing "â" problem

On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 08:25:25PM EDT, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 08/25/12 15:45, Chris Jones wrote:

[..]

> I suspect Google Groups misbehavior. Checking the OP's message and my
> sent-mail folder, they both have a-hat, not a-macron. My outbound was
> encoded in ISO-8859-1 and your reply came in as UTF-8,

Yes, I noted that the OP's message was ISO8859-1 and your reply UTF-8.

I looked at the OP's message headers and they looked unfamiliar.. so, it
looks as if he is posting from Google's web interface rather than via an
email client.

> so somewhere between here and there my a-hat became an a-macron
>
> I'm replying in UTF-8 according to Thunderbird, so here's hoping this:
>
> ā

> properly comes out as an a-hat rather than the a-macron.

I can confirm that it definitely got here as an "a-hat" (U+00E2) in this
message.

Rather annoying that Google should mess up content like this.

CJ

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