juha Senior Member 2752 Posts 3/05 Posted - Jun 13 2005 : 11:47AM Just curious, why can I use these "Umlaute" on an American forum?
[Link] Drew Black broken crankshaft 8031 Posts 9/99 Posted - Jun 13 2005 : 11:59AM
Why not?[Link] Redish Poetic Moderator Long and Cursive road to the Ivory Pagoda in the province of Loraine 4076 Posts 12/03 Posted - Jun 13 2005 : 12:11PM
Sheessh, give people something extra and they complain...lol
[Link] Hurrab Member Denmark, EU 256 Posts 3/03 Posted - Jun 13 2005 : 12:13PM
You can use a lot of different characters in the forum, like the German double S (ß), the Icelandic th-ligature (Þ), the French oe (Œ, œ), the Danish/Norwegian ae (Æ, æ), oe (Ø, ø) and aa (Å, å) ...[Link] juha Senior Member 2752 Posts 3/05 Posted - Jun 13 2005 : 1:59PM
Redish wrote:
Sheessh, give people something extra and they complain...
lol
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Didn't complain.Just wonder why it works. Because in my email-programme it doesn't work.
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juha Senior Member 2752 Posts 3/05 Posted - Jun 13 2005 : 2:01PM
Hurrab wrote:
You can use a lot of different characters in the forum, like the German double S (ß),
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Well, the "ß" is not a double "s", it's a "sz".
[Link] juha Senior Member 2752 Posts 3/05 Posted - Jun 13 2005 : 2:03PM
Drew Black wrote:
Why not?
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Of course. Doesn't hurt nobody.As I said, I was just curious. Although it's not of real importance.
[Link] Kperv The Cuddler *struck (She slipped) 1818 Posts 1/04 Posted - Jun 13 2005 : 2:19PM
Browsers are expected to understand lots of encodings, including, I think, Microsoft's and most of the ISO and Unicode ones.Perhaps even today, not all email proggies are quite as good at that, though I haven't had problems with it for years.
What email program do you use?
[Link] Hurrab Member Denmark, EU 256 Posts 3/03 Posted - Jun 13 2005 : 2:34PM
juha wrote:
Well, the "ß" is not a double "s", it's a "sz".
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Yes, I know that it's called Eszett but it's often replaced by ss - Preußen (Prussia) for instance is written Preussen here in Denmark*, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein have officially abolished ß and replaced it with ss. And because of the 1996 German spelling reform Rußland (Russia) is now spelled Russland.Wikipedia on the ß .
*) Sometimes it's spelled Prøjsen insted, but that's a different story
[Link] Hurrab Member Denmark, EU 256 Posts 3/03 Posted - Jun 13 2005 : 2:39PM
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Perhaps even today, not all email proggies are quite as good at that, though I haven't had problems with it for years.
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There are still problems with some e-mail programs, not only the clients but also the distribution systems. There's a German bookstore that sends me newsletters in which they have to write fuer instead of für and Daenemark instead of Dänemark (Denmark).[Link] Kperv The Cuddler *struck (She slipped) 1818 Posts 1/04 Posted - Jun 13 2005 : 2:58PM
Hurrab wrote:
There are still problems with some e-mail programs, not only the clients but also the distribution systems.
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Haven't all MTA's worth their salt been 8-bit clean for about ten years now?[Link] juha Senior Member 2752 Posts 3/05 Posted - Jun 13 2005 : 4:35PM
Hurrab wrote:
juha wrote:
Well, the "ß" is not a double "s", it's a "sz".
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Yes, I know that it's called Eszett but it's often replaced by ss -
Preußen (Prussia) for instance is written
Preussen here in Denmark*, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein have officially abolished ß and replaced it with ss.
And because of the 1996 German spelling reform Rußland (Russia) is now spelled Russland.
Wikipedia on the ß .
*) Sometimes it's spelled Prøjsen insted, but that's a different story
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Yes, that's true. Also "daß" is no written "dass". How come you know our language so good? Even the latest spelling reform?[Link] juha Senior Member 2752 Posts 3/05 Posted - Jun 13 2005 : 4:40PM
Kperv wrote:
Browsers are expected to understand lots of encodings, including, I think, Microsoft's and most of the ISO and Unicode ones.
Perhaps even today, not all email proggies are quite as good at that, though I haven't had problems with it for years.
What email program do you use?
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Thanks, Kperv. I'm a bit old-fashioned. Still using Pegasus.[Link] Kperv The Cuddler *struck (She slipped) 1818 Posts 1/04 Posted - Jun 13 2005 : 5:14PM
juha wrote:
I'm a bit old-fashioned. Still using Pegasus.
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Pegasus? There's a blast from the past. I remember using it at work yonks ago.I think Pegasus still has a problem with anything beyond a basic subset of ISO-8859-1. There may be some Pegasus specific helper programs that can help.
OTOH, if poor international support is a real problem for you, it might be time to switch. Thunderbird is nice. Before switching to Linux, I preferred Eudora Mail. But that was back in the 90s so I don't know how well that holds up today.
Recent poll: Which E-mail software do you use?
BTW, I love your gently wistful avatar. Who is the beauty?
[Link] juha Senior Member 2752 Posts 3/05 Posted - Jun 13 2005 : 5:50PM
Do you use Thunderbird? I think I'll give it a try.That's Maya Deren, queen of experimental cinema. The image is from her classic MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON.
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Hurrab Member Denmark, EU 256 Posts 3/03 Posted - Jun 14 2005 : 7:01AM
Kperv wrote:
Haven't all MTA's worth their salt been 8-bit clean for about ten years now?
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Yeah they ought to, but things take time..[Link] Hurrab Member Denmark, EU 256 Posts 3/03 Posted - Jun 14 2005 : 7:03AM
juha wrote:
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How come you know our language so good?
Even the latest spelling reform?
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Well, partly because I'm interested in German, partly because I've just read the Wikipedia article about the Eszett[Link] Kperv The Cuddler *struck (She slipped) 1818 Posts 1/04 Posted - Jun 14 2005 : 11:38AM
juha wrote:
Do you use Thunderbird?
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No. But if I hadn't found another (Unix only) one, that's pretty much perfect for me, before Thunderbird came around, I would most likely be using Thunderbird now.[Link] Hurrab Member Denmark, EU 256 Posts 3/03 Posted - Jun 14 2005 : 5:53PM
Hurrab wrote:
Kperv wrote:
Haven't all MTA's worth their salt been 8-bit clean for about ten years now?
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Yeah they ought to, but things take time..
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And since they're addressing me as "Sehr geehrter Herr ...", I can bear with their lack of a decent MTA[Link] Redish Poetic Moderator Long and Cursive road to the Ivory Pagoda in the province of Loraine 4076 Posts 12/03 Posted - Jun 18 2005 : 2:24AM
juha wrote:
Redish wrote:
Sheessh, give people something extra and they complain...
lol
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Didn't complain.
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I was just playing, and Thunderbird works great for me.
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