Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 11:04:57 -0500

From: Mark Mandel Mark[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]DRAGONSYS.COM

Subject: HTML diacritics and such



Greg Downing writes:







I see a couple of html diacriticals did not come through on the last=

message:



=3DE6 is =E6 (digraph)



=3DE9 is =E9 (e with acute accent)



Greg Downing/NYU, at greg.downing[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]nyu.edu or downingg[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]is2.nyu.edu







Lots of things are not coming through, Greg. What I see here is (and I'll transcribe the way I

would read it out loud,

plus caps):



equal-sign three Dee Ee six is equal-sign Ee six open-paren digraph close-paren



equal-sign three Dee Ee nine is equal-sign Ee nine open-paren ee with acute accent close-paren



That is: Whatever characters or character sequences you may be seeing on your screen, once your

email gets

through the vagaries of the Internet and onto my desk, all non-ASCII characters are turned into

some kind of escape

sequence. Unless you're transmitting to a single recipient or a small group, who you know from

experience will

receive and display your transmission intact with special characters, it's not safe to send anything

but ASCII.



In brief: DON'T EMAIL WEIRD SYMBOLS.



Yours for clear communication,



Mark A. Mandel : Senior Linguist : mark[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]dragonsys.com

Dragon Systems, Inc. : speech recognition : +1 617 965-5200

320 Nevada St., Newton, MA 02160, USA : http://www.dragonsys.com/