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From: Tom Duff td@pixar.com
Subject: [9fans] mothra char set
Date: Tue,  8 Sep 1998 10:31:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19980908173121.TdKjpaDRZmOdSX2BwTJ49iQy9IfwzWSdYiVOqfCf2C4@z> (raw)

On Sep 8,  6:00pm, forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk wrote:
> Subject: [9fans] mothra char set
> >>latin1 to utf on input.  Obviously if you prefer to
> >>read JIS, you can change latin2utf appropriately.
>
> the content-type should specify charset= to distinguish the
> cases.
Should, but often doesn't.
>  the catch (as always with this multiple-charset clumsiness)
> is that you'd probably need to replicate all the translations of tcs.
> ugh.

Maybe you could pipe text through tcs -- or build a tcs library,
so that this ugh never occurs again.

-- 
Tom Duff.  Hear, ye children, and attend to my lips.




             reply	other threads:[~1998-09-08 17:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-09-08 17:31 Tom [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1998-09-28  2:18 okamoto
1998-09-28  2:01 okamoto
1998-09-15 13:22 rob
1998-09-15  7:58 okamoto
1998-09-15  5:10 okamoto
1998-09-08 17:00 forsyth

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