pynchon-l-digest V2 #6659

[Tim Ware]

Plain text will definely cure a post like the one I quoted. Basically,  
diacriticals can only be rendered in rich text. I'm not quite sure why  
you'd want to send a long post in Hungarian (or whatever it was) but  
future users will find the plist archive almost useless due to the   
large amount of junk code. And it's got me about to bail (although I  
imagine that may be a relief to this list ;)

Tim

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On Feb 12, 2009, at 8:44 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Tim Ware <tim at hyperarts.com> wrote:
>
>> Here is what miksaapia's post looked like to many subscribers and  
>> in the
>> archive. I 've politely asked this guy to use plain text for sake  
>> of others,
>> but no success. Perhaps I'm the only who cares about this, but it's  
>> really
>> just a bit of good neighborliness to use plain text. I understand  
>> there some
>> Serious Rebels here, and I appreciate that. But ...
>
> Well, I later found taht the article I posted on Janos' GR translation
> ended up as typographical gobbledygook as well here, apparently
> because of all the diacritical marks.  Will plain text solve that
> problem?  Or will necessary information (e.g., the proper typographic
> characters) be lost?  Before we get all potentially languagist here
> ...