[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > In comp.lang.perl.misc Timo Stamm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Other charsets than US-ASCII are widely accepted in non-english >> newsgroups as long as the charset is properly declared. > >> Xah's posting was properly encoded and will display fine in every decent >> newsreader. > > It is not just the question of the newsreader, it is also a question of > whether > the character set/font being used is capable of displaying the characters > concerned.
A character set doesn't display characters, it specifies the coupling of a character (grapheme) and its representation in a data format (number). Because the specification of internet text messages only allows 7 bit ASCII, Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions have been introduced. They define, for example, the quoted-printable transfer encoding. Xah's posting properly declared a quoted-printable transfer encoding and the UTF-8 charset. There were no unspecified characters in the message, it was absolutely adhering to the recognized standards. If this message doesn't display properly on your system - because your newsreader doesn't know how to decode quoted printable or because your operating system lacks a font to display the characters, this may be a problem. But it's your newsreader or your OS that is broken or not up to date. BTW, the newsreader you are using should handle the posting fine. Timo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
