On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 20:05:58 -0700, Dante Alighieri dalighieri@digitalgrapefruit.com gave utterance to the following:
At 07:43 PM 9/7/2003, you wrote:
On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 12:11, tarquin wrote:
Dante Alighieri wrote:
It's very easy to write accented characters (and not just French
ones)
with a "standard" English keyboard. Just load up the
US-International
keyboard layout and you too can easily type such exciting characters as: ç, ó, æ, ß, €, µ, ä, etc.
Must be a Windows 2000 / XP thing, I can only see English-US on Win98.
At least US releases of Windows have had it for ages; I've used it on and off since Windows 3.1.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Any idea why your response broke the characters? They now have weird capital A's in front of totally different characters....
Tarquin's reply was sent with an inadequate charset to display the content of the message: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed
This is rather surprising given the mail client (Thunderbird): User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624