From:	scott@**********.com (Scott Harrison)
Subject:	Scott Harrison - Unreadable Messages [OT]
Date:	Wed, 3 Aug 2005 12:31:04 -0400

On Aug 3, 2005, at 12:19, Stefanos Patelis wrote:
>>>
>>> I suspect those weird characters in his .sig aren't helping matters.
>>>
>> The UTF-8 encoding should not matter. And yes, those weird
>> characters in my sig are from Plane 1 of Unicode so I can easily see
>> how Microsoft products may have a hard time rendering them. However,
>> the fact that they cannot be displayed is more of a prettiness
>> problem. I believe the problem was related to the fact that my
>> message was security signed, and the fact that many mailers interpret
>> the signature as an attachment.
>>
> Well just as a by note I got Thunderbird running on RedHat Linux 9.2
> and I still see funnny chars even though Thunderbird picks up the
> encoding as Unicode(UTF-8).
>
> It might be the case it is more related to the sig than the encoding...
>
>
> --
> Πατέλης
Στέφανος
>

To see the characters you need to have two things:
(1) The ability to display Plane 1 Unicode characters
(2) A font that displays these specific characters (which are Shavian)

Microsoft has not been known to support Unicode as well as it can, and
I believe that Plane 1 are not supported well currently. I have not
checked my Vista software yet though. I would hope it works there
properly otherwise they will be getting a bug report from me.

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