Partly P: Diacritical signs

[Tim Ware]

Thanks Kai. And thanks for only taking a few potshots at me and my  
motives and implications that I'm intentionally lying about stuff to  
achieve my nefarious ends. You may be correct about the subject lines  
and it'd be great if you wanted to track down that mystery.

I think if you and I met face to face we'd probably like each other,  
and someday that may happen, so it'd be great if you just trusted my  
motives which are really not about Control, but readability. And  
believe me, lying on this list is absolutely the farthest thing from  
my mind (or one of them). I have no idea why you'd suggest or think  
that.

All the best,

Tim



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On Feb 13, 2009, at 8:25 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen wrote:

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>
>>
>> Whatta relief. "Független Hírügynökség" comes across
>> just fine. So it looks like mystery solved.
>
>
> Not really. Though I don't like the way you sounded, I switched, in  
> order
> to improve the archives' readibility, to 'plain text' in mid December
> (> mail: "re-entry") and have not posted 'rich text' ever since. Yet  
> when
> I visited the archives today, I saw that the subject lines still don't
> appear the way they should (though I strongly doubt that there are,  
> like
> you write, "many people" who get it like that in their mailboxes).  
> So it's
> not (only) about 'plain text/rich text'. Regarding the subject line,  
> there
> must be another technical problem. See, for example, my two mails from
> 2/2/09. Or Otto's posting from 1/7/09. Always when an "Umlaut" (ä;  
> ö; ü)
> appears in the subject line, the archive is producing Sonderzeichen.  
> Or,
> like on 1/24/09, it swallows the whole line and leaves a blank  
> space. I
> guess avoiding diacritical signs in the subject line can solve that  
> problem.
> But please don't tell bs à la "diacritical signs can only be  
> rendered by
> rich text". It's not true (and you probably know this). The archive's
> technical dis/abilities are a relic from the electronical stoneage.
>
> KFL+
>
>
>
>
>>
>> Anyone needing help with the rich/plain text deal, just let me know,
>> blockwart that I am ;)
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>