At 10:02 PM 9/7/2003, you wrote:
Dante Alighieri wrote:
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, Ã, , µ, ä, etc.
Must be a Windows 2000 / XP thing, I can only see English-US on Win98.
Any idea why your response broke the characters? They now have weird capital A's in front of totally different characters....
Maybe your machine is peforming obscene act on the characters. In the first messages I received them as question marks in black diamonds. They showed up correctly on Brion's message, but on your last message they were mostly showed up as Cyrillic two-letter combinations. Nevertheless they ended up correct again when I quoted the message above. Go figure!
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Sigh... Well, I'm totally open to suggestions on how to solve the problem... just about anything short of switching e-mail clients is acceptable. On a related note, allow me to voice my deep and abiding love for lack of standards... why have one useful and quality standard when we can have several confusing and un-interoperable formats...
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"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of great moral crisis." -Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321