Re: Mail UTF-7 Script -- final
Re: Mail UTF-7 Script -- final
- Subject: Re: Mail UTF-7 Script -- final
- From: John Delacour <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 21:28:05 +0100
At 12:07 pm -0700 19/9/02, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
> If you want OE to display the message properly, you need to use
TextEdit, just as Eudora has to. Do this and then tell me OE and
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)?
The chances of WASTE getting Unicode-savvy in the near future are
nil. I have it from the horse's mouth.
What about Greek in "proper Unicode"? I can't imagine many people are using
it with UTF-7, are they?
Don't know what you mean. The old regime does not even provide
characters for modern Greek let alone classical Greek. If you paste
whatever lousy-looking Greek characters you got into a text editor
you will see that most of them come from the Osaka Japanese font,
with the pi and big Omega coming from Monaco. It's got nothing to do
with UTF-7, UTF-8, UTF-16 or UTF-32 -- these are all the same basic
thing. Microsoft products for the Mac simply cannot display Unicode,
and that includes the latest version of Word.
The only thing that can deal with Unicode in OS 8.6/9 is WorldText,
and there are precious few programs for OS-X so far. Yes, the BBEdit
people and so on will pretend they can do Unicode, but they can't --
all they can do is use the TEC to convert to old-fashioned character
sets.
OmniWeb, Mozilla, Mail, Netscape 7 ?, TextEdit, and a few odd small
things can deal with Unicode and that's it.
JD
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