Wes Groleau wrote:
> AV3 wrote:
>> Wes Groleau wrote:
>>> Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
>>> Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit
>>>
>>> However, the subject header looks like it might be UTF-8 encoded
>>>
>>> Subject: Re: avoir/=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=EF=BF=BDtre_?= expression activities?
>
>> I have never had that problem in mail.app, perhaps because I chose
>> fonts with my frequently used Unicode characters (Lucida, Helvetica,
>> Monaco), but I don't know of any font that can't handle iso-8859-1
>> (Latin 1). Are you using a non-standard font for reading mail
>> messages? If not, it must be the fault of the sender encoding in some
>> non-standard way. Can you read my "être"?
>
> Oh, yes. I almost never have a problem sending and receiving
> French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese in e-mail. (Usenet, seems
> a lot of Spanish speakers are able to read what I post but when
> they quote, it comes back garbled.)
>
> Font isn't an issue--OS X is _very_ reliable at autoswitching
> to another font when the current font does not have the character.
>
> The problem here, now that I think a bit more, is that the sender
> said "I'm switching to Latin-1" (when it was already in Latin-1) but
> then it instead switched to UTF-8.
>
> Or that's what it looks like--I am not fluent in whatever "language"
> is =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=..._?=
>
>
Curiouser and curiouser. First, I meant to send in Latin 1 but
mistakenly sent "être in Unicode so I'm trying again. Second, iso-8859-1
indicates the character set for Latin 1, not for any particular
language. It serves for English, Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish, and
German. Although Latin 1 has the meagerest set of superscripted
characters, it does have circumflexes for vowels, so that couldn't be
the source of your problems. You are right about Macs substituting fonts
when in need of a character, so the error seems to derive from your
sender using a non-standard font and/or character set.
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