[OT] Non-ASCII corrupted in the digest

Doug Ewell doug at ewellic.org
Wed Nov 25 04:48:41 CET 2009


A very off-topic administrative point...

According to the digest, Michael Everson wrote:

> The authorities could decide to deprecate "sh" in favour of "?" for 
> some language...

and Mark Davis ? wrote:

> ... in gsw the conjugation of present tense verbs and even personal 
> pronouns vary between Bern and Z?rich.

and CE Whitehead wrote:

> ... weekly newspaper "M?ras zeme" (now as spplement of the Rezekne 
> newspaper "R?zeknes V?stis"...

How difficult would it be to teach the software that generates the 
digest and the Web archive that there are characters beyond ASCII, and 
in particular to recognize UTF-8 posts?

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