Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 10/23/44 11:44

On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, Alan J. Flavell wrote:

> On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, Harlan Messinger wrote:
>
> > else, and the appearance in two places of "تست2", once after
> > the date at the top, and once as the first item in list of Recent
> > Posts. The first one appears in the page source as "تست2"
>
> Yes, I'd spotted that,

I've just noticed that Goo-groups has completely garbled this part of
the thread, as displayed in its normal view, by re-interpreting the
above string of seven Latin-1 characters as posted and seen by us,
into a string of four utf-8 characters - as we would assume had been
intended (but not actually achieved) by the original web page. Thus
completely obscuring the problem which we were discussing!!! Grrrrrr.

Curiously, if the usenet postings are viewed in goo-groups by using
their "Show original" option, instead of their default thread display,
then they come out in the way that you (and I) posted, i.e exhibiting
the problem that we were discussing. Their unsolicited
re-interpretation of the character encoding in their thread view,
*IGNORING* the explicit specification of charset=iso-8859-1 which
appears in both of our posting headers, gives us yet another reason to
advocate that anyone seriously considering goo-groups as a usenet
interface would be better advised to Get a Real News Reader.

Here are the characters again, but this time interleaved with spaces.
Let's see how goo-groups will garble this: "Ø ª Ø ³ Ø ª 2".

sigh.

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