Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 17, No. 381.
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Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 07:13:02 +0000
From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: accents
As far as the computing systems involved in the publication of Humanist are
concerned -- at Princeton, Virginia and King's College London -- the
difficulty to which Jim O'Donnell pointed is *almost* no longer. It seems
that an upgrade to lists.village.virginia.edu has at last cured the problem
that required my not always perfect manual intervention to preserve
accented characters throughout the messages sent to Humanist. BUT, as the
header of the message in Humanist 17.380, from my Dublin colleague Mícheál
Mac an Airchinnigh, demonstrates, we're still not quite there yet. It seems
that accented names in e-mail headers come to me encoded with "quoted
printable" characters. I don't think this is a fault I can correct but
would be very happy to be instructed otherwise. (I've read the Eudora
documentation on the topic.) As you may have guessed, I normally correct
such problems by hand, but I stayed my hand this time in order to satisfy
Mícheál's curiosity.
Curiously the announcements of new publications sent out by Kluwer makes
utter hash out of accented characters -- you'd think that an international
publisher would get this one right, would you not? I correct these when I can.
Yours,
WM
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