My mail reader (Eudora) barfs on anything non-ASCII, including UTF8. I'd be interested in any suggestions for simple email readers that do UTF-8, but nothing more complicated. Things like Thunderbird are to bloated. Perhaps I should go back to Emacs for email reading? At 02:04 AM 10/15/2013, Gareth McCaughan wrote:
On 15/10/2013 04:03, Adam P. Goucher wrote:
Just out of interest, what's the policy on UTF-8 (extended ASCII)? In particular, can everyone read the following sentence?
`Professor Béla Bollobás has an Erdös number of (¾ + ½²).'
There should be two acute accents, one umlaut (since Hungarian double acute accents are absent from UTF-8), two rationals and a square. Everything else is ASCII.
The fourth letter of ErdÅs's name is in the Unicode character set.
It is represented by a single code point, at position 337 (decimal), which in the UTF-8 encoding becomes two octets, 0xC5 0x91.
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