On Mon, 1/19/2026 12:55 AM, Lawrence D?Oliveiro wrote:
On Sat, 17 Jan 2026 11:05:15 -0500, Maria Sophia wrote:
Once even one non ASCII character slips in, the script that guesses
the encoding gets confused and decides the whole post must be Big5
or whatever.
The native Windows character set is a kind of a weird one: it?s called ?UTF-16?, and it?s not something that anybody in their right mind
would design software to use. But I think that?s the fundamental root
of the problem.
Windows ended up with it for historical reasons, and it?s too late to
change now. But I suppose the occasional hiccup like this is
considered a small price to pay for all the benefits that the
Microsoft OS brings you ...
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/intl/double-byte-character-sets
"Note
New Windows applications should use Unicode to avoid the inconsistencies
of varied code pages and for ease of localization"
"Each DBCS code page supports different characters,
but no page supports the full breadth of characters provided by Unicode."
More info here.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/intl/unicode
Anything you could want is in there, and you have to decide
where your best interests lay.
Neat. When I pasted this into Thunderbird (decomposed form) o??
it took three backspaces to remove it -) Each backspace, removing
a portion of the decoration.
This stuff is way way past my pay scale. Who needs Emoji when you
can have this much fun.
Paul
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