Re: RE: RE: The character '‪‫‬‭‮‪‫‬‭‮҉'

[Igor Peshansky <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>]

On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Dave Korn wrote:

> On 28 August 2007 14:24, Igor Peshansky wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Dave Korn wrote:
> >
> >> On 27 August 2007 16:53, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> >>
> >>> Dave Korn wrote:
> >>>>   Maybe if I try again, in UTF-8 encoding this time.  Meanwhile just for new
> >>>> content, I hear that corrupt perjurer Gonzales has just resigned.  Hooray.
> >>>>
> >>>>   I just read about it on tdwtf[*], so I wondered if it would work here too.
> >>>>
> >>>>    So then:
> >>>> âÿÿªâÿÿ«âÿÿ¬âÿÿ­âÿÿ®âÿÿªâÿÿ«âÿÿ¬âÿÿ­âÿÿ®âÿÿªâÿÿ«âÿÿ¬âÿÿ­âÿÿ®âÿÿªâÿÿ«âÿÿ¬âÿÿ­âÿÿ®Òÿÿ
> >>>>
> >>>> .retcarahc taht retfa sdrawkcab enog evah dluohs gnihtyreveE  .gnikrow s'ti
> >>>> kniht t'nod I ,epoN
> >>>>
> >>>> âÿÿªâÿÿ«âÿÿ¬âÿÿ­âÿÿ®âÿÿªâÿÿ«âÿÿ¬âÿÿ­âÿÿ®âÿÿªâÿÿ«âÿÿ¬âÿÿ­âÿÿ®âÿÿªâÿÿ«âÿÿ¬âÿÿ­âÿÿ®Òÿÿ
> >>>>
> >>>>   Oh well, never mind.
> >>>
> >>> Firefox, on Windows, does indeed render the middle text in
> >>> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin.talk/3877 (link to the post I
> >>> am replying to) in "correct" direction. So it *does* work (yes, UTF8 is
> >>> required).
> >>
> >>   My FF doesn't show anything unusual at that page.  What version are you
> >> using?
> >
> > You need UTF-8 encoding (View->Character Encoding->Unicode (UTF-8)).
>
>   It picked that automatically anyway.  No, it's because I've tried a 1.0.x and a 1.5.x series FF and Matthew's got 2.x

Yes, I used 2.x too.

> > OTOH, the Cygwin list web archives seem to be doing some encoding
> > translation of their own, as that character looks like a sequence of "a"s
> > with circumflexes.
>
>   Every time we quote it in a reply, it gets more and more mangled.  I
> can hardly wait to see what it does next.  (Now setting encoding of this
> mail to UTF-7 for extra mungetastic fun!)

Ok, I'll bite.  BTW, "!" seems to indicate a colon... :-)  Oh, what
wonders...
	Igor
P.S. We're also accumulating "RE"s...
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