> This whole "i18n" and "l10n" is a nightmare---and this is a not > english native speaker who writes it...
And as a native anglophone - who knows a smattering of assorted other languages - I agree. I just recently ran into an occasion where something actually got me to send mail to a domain whose mail was hosted by Google. I sent it as 8859-14, because it involved a small amount of text in one of the Gaelic dialects and I prefer to use seanċló when I can. The text included a ċ. But apparently, despite my marking it as 8859-14, by the time it got displayed (in their webmail interface, I think), it had been converted into U+0104, LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH OGONEK, rather than the correct mapping, U+010B, LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH DOT ABOVE. So I sent a test mail, containing each of the accented vowels and each of the dotted consonants (well, most of them; I forgot Ṫ and ṫ, but that's minor). That mail, for all that it was also marked as being 8859-14, got displayed as if it were 8859-1. Not even Google, apparently, can get it even vaguely right. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
