RE: RE: The character '‪‫‬‭‮‪‫‬‭‮҉'

[Dave Korn]

On 28 August 2007 14:24, Igor Peshansky wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Dave Korn wrote:
> 
>> On 27 August 2007 16:53, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> 
>>> Dave Korn wrote:
>>>>   Maybe if I try again, in UTF-8 encoding this time.  Meanwhile just for new
>>>> content, I hear that corrupt perjurer Gonzales has just resigned.  Hooray.
>>>> 
>>>>   I just read about it on tdwtf[*], so I wondered if it would work here too.
>>>> 
>>>>    So then: 
>>>> âÿÿªâÿÿ«âÿÿ¬âÿÿ­âÿÿ®âÿÿªâÿÿ«âÿÿ¬âÿÿ­âÿÿ®âÿÿªâÿÿ«âÿÿ¬âÿÿ­âÿÿ®âÿÿªâÿÿ«âÿÿ¬âÿÿ­âÿÿ®Òÿÿ
>>>> 
>>>> .retcarahc taht retfa sdrawkcab enog evah dluohs gnihtyreveE  .gnikrow s'ti
>>>> kniht t'nod I ,epoN
>>>> 
>>>> âÿÿªâÿÿ«âÿÿ¬âÿÿ­âÿÿ®âÿÿªâÿÿ«âÿÿ¬âÿÿ­âÿÿ®âÿÿªâÿÿ«âÿÿ¬âÿÿ­âÿÿ®âÿÿªâÿÿ«âÿÿ¬âÿÿ­âÿÿ®Òÿÿ
>>>> 
>>>>   Oh well, never mind.
>>> 
>>> Firefox, on Windows, does indeed render the middle text in
>>> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin.talk/3877 (link to the post I
>>> am replying to) in "correct" direction. So it *does* work (yes, UTF8 is
>>> required).
>> 
>>   My FF doesn't show anything unusual at that page.  What version are you
>> using? 
> 
> You need UTF-8 encoding (View->Character Encoding->Unicode (UTF-8)).

  It picked that automatically anyway.  No, it's because I've tried a 1.0.x and a 1.5.x series FF and Matthew's got 2.x

 
> OTOH, the Cygwin list web archives seem to be doing some encoding
> translation of their own, as that character looks like a sequence of "a"s
> with circumflexes.

  Every time we quote it in a reply, it gets more and more mangled.  I can hardly wait to see what it does next.  (Now setting encoding of this mail to UTF-7 for extra mungetastic fun!)


    cheers,
      DaveK
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