How to swee youtube videos,

Björn Persson bjorn at xn--rombobjrn-67a.se
Sun Aug 3 18:07:03 UTC 2008


"g" wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> <snip>
>
> > The message was in text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1. Perhaps you need to
> > check your settings for character encoding.
>
> it is set to utf-8. 8859-1 throws a '�', that is a "double grave i, an
> inverted ?, an a '1/2'".

Just for your information, the two dots are called a diaeresis, not "double 
grave".

EF BF BD is the UTF-8 representation of the character U+FFFD REPLACEMENT 
CHARACTER, which is described as "used to replace an incoming character whose 
value is unknown or unrepresentable in Unicode". I see it as a white question 
mark in a black square standing on its corner. This probably means that some 
program took the ISO 8859-1 text, tried to read it as if it were UTF-8, found 
the byte value F3, and found that it was an invalid UTF-8 code. My guess is 
that it was your Thunderbird that did this. Have you forced it to read 
everything as UTF-8?

> > BTW it's an accented 'o' (ó).
>
> that is what i see when you send it, but not when rui sends it.

Rui's message was encoded in ISO 8859-1. Patrick's was in UTF-8. Both reached 
me unmangled. To see for yourself, press Ctrl+U and look at the 
header "Content-Type".

Björn Persson
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