Re: UTF-8

Nerijus Baliunas <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.mahogany.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 10:16:27 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time) Alan G Isaac <[email protected]> wrote:

AGI> In Mahogany I do to the Language menu and set the
AGI> default encoding to UTF-8.  In Vim I set encoding
AGI> and fileencoding to UTF-8.  I reply to your message,
AGI> and I type a delta: δ
AGI> 
AGI> In Vim I see the delta.  I save and exit the file.
AGI> In Composer I see what I believe is an attempt to
AGI> interpret the two-bytes of the delta as Latin-1.
AGI> However when I check the Language menu I see that
AGI> it says the message is UTF-8.  I also see that
AGI> in my sent mail.
AGI> 
AGI> When I send the message, do you see a delta? δ

No. Although I remember I forwarded UTF-8 message with
Mahogany and it was OK, so I thought it might work with
external editor. But it seems it doesn't unfortunately.

AGI> If not, can you suggest what else I might do?

Wait until Mahogany has full Unicode support...

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

IMHO no.

Regards,
Ner


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