On Thursday 12 July 2007, Henning Thielemann wrote:
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Albert Y. C. Lai wrote:
Andrew Coppin wrote:
Wait... I thought Unicode was still an experimental prototype? Since when does it work in the real world??
That myth is as old as "Haskell is an experimental prototype". "Old" as in "that's an old one".
Windows has been well supporting Unicode since 2000. That is pretty much of the real world.
The only reason you see α as the Greek letter alpha and not scrambled code is that I send it as Unicode and your Windows and Thunderbird also support Unicode and therefore they display it to you properly.
I don't see a greek letter alpha here, but scrambled code in 'pine' here. ^^^^
There's your problem right there. Get either a terminal or a mail program that knows UTF-8. Jonathan Cast http://sourceforge.net/projects/fid-core http://sourceforge.net/projects/fid-emacs