Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 07 Jan 2007 14:06:40 +0100 | From | Tilman Schmidt <> | Subject | OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4) |
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Russell King schrieb: [Leonard NorrgÃ¥rd (1):] > That is an å if you look at the raw message in UTF-8. However, Linus > sends mail in with a charset of ISO-8859-1, and if you place UTF-8 > encoded text in such a message body, you will see A¥.
Only if the mechanism used for placing it there ignores the different encodings.
> Welcome to the mess which the UTF-8 charset creates.
The problem of different character encodings coexisting on the same platform, and the resulting occasional messing-up, far predates Unicode. I distinctly remember one case of being bitten by this myself in 1977 when Unicode wasn't even on the horizon yet, and I don't think that was the first time.
Tilman
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