From: Josef 'Jupp' Schugt <jupp@...>
Date: 2003-04-13T07:49:01+09:00
Subject: Re: FAQ for comp.lang.ruby

Saluton!

* Stephan K�mper <Stephan.Kaemper@Schleswig-Holstein.de>; 2003-04-12, 17:39 UTC:
>> Who else here sees the umlauts substituted?
>>
> 
> As far as I see, I see the umlauts ��� etc. But then I didn't see
> them in Josef's posting, but that's another question, I think.

Your mail programm seemingly does not support mime-encoded Latin 9
(ISO-8859-15).

> Apart from that, I get the Chinese and Japanese postings that
> appear now and then displayed correctly, too. (Must be because I'm
> currently learning Chinese and installed the appropriate char
> sets.).

As far as Japanese is concerned, Mew (http://www.mew.org/) is a good
choice. In mutt using kakasi (don't know the URL by heart) is very
nice you can have it automatically generate furigana (of course this
requires a Kanji terminal).

Details see my message of Sat, 15 Mar 2003 16:08:38 +0000 with
subject '[OT] Using kakasi for reading Japanese texts'

Message-ID: <20030315160838.GA1671@jupp%gmx.de>

The problem with Chinese is that there are two versions (Traditional
and Simplified) that tend to require different fonts and several
mailers do not provide information what encoding is being used.

> Tsch�� - resp. Tschuess :-)

Oh, now we are in *real* trouble. I don't know if anybody here is
learing German at the moment but just in case let me state that

1. 'Tsch��' with u with diaresis and sharp s (that's the name used by
   the Unicode consortium) is *old* spelling.

2. The reformed spelling is 'Tsch�ss' with u with diaresis and TWO
   ordinary 's'.

3. If you wish to avoid that issue use the alternative spelling
   'Tsch�s' with u with diaresis and ONE ordinary 's'.

I did mainly suggest the ASCII transliteration solution because it
does not involve replacing a MUA (mail user agent) and guarantees
that the titles are readable irrespective of what mailer is used.

Everything that goes beyond ASCII possibly runs you into trouble. I
hope that we will soon have a library that can decode mime-encoded
message headers. I don't like that my filter program does output
undecoded MIME-headers...

Gis,

Josef 'Jupp' Schugt