Russell King schrieb:
[Leonard Norrgård (1):]
> That is an å if you look at the raw message in UTF-8. However, Linus
> sends mail in with a charset of ISO-8859-1, and if you place UTF-8
> encoded text in such a message body, you will see A¥.
Only if the mechanism used for placing it there ignores the different
encodings.
> Welcome to the mess which the UTF-8 charset creates.
The problem of different character encodings coexisting on the same
platform, and the resulting occasional messing-up, far predates Unicode.
I distinctly remember one case of being bitten by this myself in 1977
when Unicode wasn't even on the horizon yet, and I don't think that was
the first time.
Tilman
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