Unclear text in the UBA (UAX#9) of Unicode 6.3

Asmus Freytag asmusf at ix.netcom.com
Thu May 1 20:58:13 CDT 2014


This has seen off-line discussion with the mail manager and we're good.

A./

On 5/1/2014 3:44 PM, Richard Wordingham wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Apr 2014 17:19:57 -0700
> Asmus Freytag <asmusf at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>> On this side show, Philippe finally is correct, because I received
>> his message without ASCII-i-fication; he cc'd me directly, and I
>> never saw the mangled text. It's a bit embarassing for a Unicode mail
>> list to not even be able to let guillemets through unmolested.
> Are you sure it's the mail list that did the mangling?  As I got the
> post, it had two parts, plain-text in ISO-8859-1, with '<<' and '>>'
> substituted for the guillemets '«' and '»', and HTML, also in
> ISO-8859-1, with character entities « and ».  I suspect
> Philippe's e-mail client may be at fault.
>
> Richard.
>



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