Re: Armenian, Sumerian, Burushaski, and Turkic languages

Paul J Kriha skreiv:

Brian M. Scott <b.scott@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:172x4a5l7broh.jr8pq8qts19z$.dlg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

On Fri, 8 Jun 2007 17:09:28 +1200, Paul J Kriha
<paul.nospam.kriha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
<news:4668e3fe@xxxxxxxxxxxx> in sci.lang:

The newsreader I am using at the moment doesn't allow me
to chose iso-8859-15. I don't remember what it does when
it receives a post in that charset.

Let's find out: žè. (That was z-hachek and e-grave, a
combination that Dialog first finds in iso-8859-15.)

Well what a surprise, it screws it up.
I checked, your post header indeed contains
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

I see z-hachek displayed as an ogonek, just a little black
tail descender with otherwise blank character. The e-grave
is displayed as e with a grave accent.

Your header specifies
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-15"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Did you set that yourself, or did OE choose to specify a charset it doesn't have? Anyway, the quote from Brian in your reply looks fine here.


--
Trond Engen
- sort of a blank character, himself
.

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