[lbo-talk] Wi-Fi as "Dog Turd" Capitalism

Matt lbo at beyondzero.net
Fri Aug 1 12:48:02 PDT 2003


On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 03:28:28PM -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:


> How odd. Here's what it says at the beginning of his texts:
>
> <x-charset utf-8>
>
> Anyone know what that means?

It is the Unicode character set, which attempts to be a universal character set that can represent all of the characters of the world's major languages in one character set, instead of the various character sets that only represent 256 characters each.

http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/standard.html

Perhaps something in the list software or digest software does not speak Unicode?

Matt

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