UTF-8

>>> It might be that such message could be sent correctly
>>> if you set encoding to UTF-8. Have you tried that?


> On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 21:05:52 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time) Alan G Isaac <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I thought I had done that by setting the default "language".


On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Nerijus Baliunas apparently wrote:
> So it doesn't work then if I understand correctly? (I mean you will
> see double byte letters in composer, that's ok for now, but maybe
> recipient will receive correct message?)


In Mahogany I do to the Language menu and set the
default encoding to UTF-8.  In Vim I set encoding
and fileencoding to UTF-8.  I reply to your message,
and I type a delta: δ

In Vim I see the delta.  I save and exit the file.
In Composer I see what I believe is an attempt to
interpret the two-bytes of the delta as Latin-1.
However when I check the Language menu I see that
it says the message is UTF-8.  I also see that
in my sent mail.

When I send the message, do you see a delta? δ

If not, can you suggest what else I might do?
Unfortunately, I do not know how to think about
the issues involved here.

Thank you,
Alan 

PS I notice that if I copy from the composer and
paste into Vim, I see the delta.  So maybe I asked
my question wrong: does Composer display multibyte
characters at all?




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