Re: help on writing Greek characters

Peter T. Daniels wrote:
Andreas Prilop wrote:
On 2 Aug 2006, Peter T. Daniels wrote:

Yet mb's Greek sample a few posts up came through perfectly.
I could even read a line of Arabic a few days ago!
Google Groups *guesses* the encoding instead of reading and
recognizing the "charset" header of a messages. When the bytes
in a message could be interpreted as legal UTF-8, then
Google Groups treats it as Unicode UTF-8.

Let's see:
This message has "charset=ISO-8859-1" and contains some
extended Latin-1 characters:

ا ب ت ث ج ح خ د ذ ر ز س ش ص ض ط ظ

I wonder what Google Groups makes out of it.

It's the citation forms of the first 17 Arabic letters, in order!

I hope that's what you intended it to be.

Nope. When I read Andreas' message, which Thunderbird reports to be ISO-8859-1, the characters appeared as a mess of Danish capital slash-O, asterisk, umlaut, guillement, paragraph, plus-minus, etc., characters. Then, when I read your response, they turned into the Arabic presentation forms. Google Groups is second-guessing.

I'm sending this as UTF-8. Let's see what the following looks like--to me, it looks like the same characters I saw in Andreas' message. Your copy is above, and in this response still looks Arabic to me.

ا ب ت ث ج ح خ د ذ ر ز س ش ص ض ط ظ
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