Re: Mail UTF-7 Script -- final
Re: Mail UTF-7 Script -- final
- Subject: Re: Mail UTF-7 Script -- final
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 12:07:20 -0700
On 9/19/02 10:47 AM, "John Delacour" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> On 9/19/02 7:32 AM, "John Delacour" <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> OE and Entourage will probably choke on this bit. I posted a script
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>> recently to allow Eudora users to display Unicode.
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> Just for those who may think that makes OE and Entourage feeble somehow:
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> OE and Entourage, aside from being implemented totally in Unicode and thus
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> able to display it themselves without any recourse to other applications..
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Simply false.
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I said they would choke on it for two reasons and the first is this:
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you say that OE is "implemented totally in Unicode" but I have the
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latest version of OE and have just collected my message using OE, and
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OE is unable to display the accented characters because it uses the
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WASTE text engine and WASTE cannot deal with Unicode, whether in
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Smile or OE or Tex-Edit Plus or Style. All it can do is convert a
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small proportion of the Unicode set to styled text using a mish mash
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of fonts from the old character sets. It is therefore quite
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impossible that you were able to read the polytonic Greek in OE -- or
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in Entourage, if Entourage is based on WASTE. OE says "Some text in
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this message is in a language your computer cannot display". This is
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nonsense. What it means is a language that _OE_ and the WASTE engine
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cannot display. If you have any doubt about that, write to Marco
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Piovanelli.
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If you want OE to display the message properly, you need to use
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TextEdit, just as Eudora has to. Do this and then tell me OE and
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Entourage understand Unicode.
Yup. That's right. I don't know how often Greek comes up in UTF-7 (is this
Classical Greek or modern Greek, BTW?), but it's flawed in display in
Entourage. Entourage uses WASTE 1.3 as its text engine. Are you familiar
with WASTE 2.0? Is it any better (or maybe still in development)?
What about Greek in "proper Unicode"? I can't imagine many people are using
it with UTF-7, are they?
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Paul Berkowitz
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