Re: Those Darn Email Character Mappings
Re: Those Darn Email Character Mappings
- Subject: Re: Those Darn Email Character Mappings
- From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 18:13:27 -0800
At 11:10 -0800 1/4/01, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
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I don't understand why Apple insists on using a server for their mailing
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lists which can't understand Macintosh key-mapping. Are they trying to tell
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us that we'd all be better off if we used Windows? That's definitely how it
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comes across, using a list server that insists on converting our characters
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to Windows-mapping. (I presume that's what it's doing, anyway. Is this
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wrong?)
It has either little or nothing to do with Windows (any of the various
"standard" character mappings used there). It has to do with getting rid
of non-ASCII characters.
And it needs to be fixed. (The situation on the MPW-DEV list is worse,
since MPW scripts use lots more option-whatever characters than we do.)
The folks there have mostly given up: they put their scripts on web
servers and put URLs to them into the messages.
I believe that over on that list, we learned that Chuq was taking some time
off over the holidays. Shameful! ;-) (But I need to be careful...I took
a half day or so off myself.)
--John
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John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA