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Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 14:06:40 +0100
From: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
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To: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Subject: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4)
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Russell King schrieb:
[Leonard NorrgÃ¥rd (1):]
> That is an å if you look at the raw message in UTF-8.  However, Linus
> sends mail in with a charset of ISO-8859-1, and if you place UTF-8
> encoded text in such a message body, you will see A¥.

Only if the mechanism used for placing it there ignores the different
encodings.

> Welcome to the mess which the UTF-8 charset creates.

The problem of different character encodings coexisting on the same
platform, and the resulting occasional messing-up, far predates Unicode.
I distinctly remember one case of being bitten by this myself in 1977
when Unicode wasn't even on the horizon yet, and I don't think that was
the first time.

Tilman

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