[WikiEN-l] Special characters (was: morphophonics for wikipedia)

Sat Aug 2 03:55:39 UTC 2003

A few messages back (on WikiEN-l) I sent some accented
characters that are found in Unicode/UTF-n but not in Latin-1
using Yahoo! Mail. These apparently appeared on Timwi's client
as HTML entities, but on my client they displayed properly.
Is this just a bug with Y!Mail?

Most other special characters cannot be easily displayed
in my browser. I get the digested form, and some messages
use different character sets than others - and Mozilla
autoguesses the character set as a third, in most cases.
In one digest with links to the Hindi Wikipedia and a UTF-8
apostrophe, the default character set was Chinese Simplified.

Is there something the software can do about this? We can't
assume everyone'll send in UTF-8 (which would have been nice),
and for those like me who receive digests, it's impossible to
get the browser to display two character sets on the same
page. Could the digesting software automatically convert all
e-mails to the same character set, preferably UTF-8?

--[[User:Geoffrey|]] Thomas

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