[WikiEN-l] User Kwantus

Mon Sep 8 05:51:17 UTC 2003

On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 20:05:58 -0700, Dante Alighieri 
<dalighieri at digitalgrapefruit.com> gave utterance to the following:

> 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: Ã§, Ã³, Ã¦, ÃŸ, €, Âµ, Ã¤, etc.
>> >
>> > Must be a Windows 2000 / XP thing, I can only see English-US on Win98.
>>
>> At least US releases of Windows have had it for ages; I've used it on
>> and off since Windows 3.1.
>>
>> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
>>
>
> Any idea why your response broke the characters? They now have weird 
> capital A's in front of totally different characters....
>
Tarquin's reply was sent with an inadequate charset to display the content 
of the message:
Content-Type: 	text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed

This is rather surprising given the mail client (Thunderbird):
User-Agent: 	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
-- 
Richard Grevers
Between two evils always pick the one you haven't tried