[Dixonary] Round 1737 OPESIA - Defs up

[Dodi Schultz]

Now, Dan, I see a blank message from YOU!

--Dodi

[Daniel B. Widdis]

On 8/27/06, Dodi Schultz <schultz (AT) compuserve (DOT) com> wrote:
> Now, Dan, I see a blank message from YOU!

I think what's causing the problem is the special character in
definition #6. Apparently JohnnyB's text format (both times) was
readable by you, but when quoted by Roberta on her borrowed machine,
or me in Gmail's web interface, probably changed the text format
somehow.

Here's what I wrote, except that I used a special character after the
word ligature, by cutting and pasting from the definitions message.

On 8/27/06, Daniel B. Widdis <widdis (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:
> I'll take 6 to reward its author for including the ligature oe, and 10
> because I actually believe it.

--
Dan Widdis

[bonnyjars]

Dodi (and anyone else)

My apologies for two postings.... What happened is that I potsed using the ntl address - it didn't reflect back to me within 30
minutes so I realised what I had done and reposted using the yahoo address - that is the one that yahoo sees and posts out
imediately - if you remember, there was a time when my ntl stuff wasn't sent out at all, which is why I created the yahoo address.

FYI: I personally still haven't received the ntl posted one

JohnnyB

> -----Original Message-----
> From: coryphaeus (AT) yahoogroups (DOT) com
> [mailto:coryphaeus (AT) yahoogroups (DOT) com] On Behalf Of Dodi Schultz
> Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 6:40 PM
> To: coryphaeus (AT) yahoogroups (DOT) com
> Subject: [Dixonary] Round 1737 OPESIA - Defs up
>
> How strange. I just saw a SECOND posting of the defs
> (receiving stamp, 5 a.m. today); I'd already seen one last
> evening. I voted the first time.
>
> --Dodi
>
>
>
>

[Paul Keating]

The problem is not the special character but the way the character is
delivered. Dodi's software (or the settings she is using, I can't tell
which) regards an email delivered as UTF-8 as being binary and
undisplayable, despite the fact that it is mostly perfectly displayable with
the odd bit of garbage here and there.

Many email clients will these days properly label any email with a non-ascii
character as Unicode, and deliver it as UTF-8, unless you tell them not to.

This is a bit of a problem if your email client doesn't ask. Web email
clients never do. They know that they can handle UTF-8, and they are written
by children who were learning to read when DOS codepages went obsolete in
1991, and so ...

--
Paul Keating
The Hague

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel B. Widdis" <widdis (AT) gmail (DOT) com>
Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 8:01 PM


> I think what's causing the problem is the special character in
> definition #6. Apparently JohnnyB's text format (both times) was
> readable by you, but when quoted by Roberta on her borrowed machine,
> or me in Gmail's web interface, probably changed the text format
> somehow.



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