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Re: [Phys-l] test : fancy symbols, utf-8 encoding



John,

I use Kmail (on a SuSE 10.0 linux OS) to read my mail.

All the diacritical markings in the foreign language names and even the
non-Latin alphabets (Greek, Russian) came through just fine, but the
equations have many hollow rectangular boxes. For example, I see
box box E [large space] = 4 [pi] [rho]
a box following the i in Schrödinger's first equation
a box between c and e in the first miscellaneous equation
q box v[squared]
and so forth.
The items in square brackets above came through fine; I put them that
way to ensure clarity and correct transmission.

My reader is normally set for "Auto" font selection but changing it
manually to select UTF-8 did not improve anything.

Jim


On Sunday 12 February 2006 17:35, John Denker wrote:
This is a test of the features of the phys-l mailer, which was
recently upgraded from listserv(tm) to mailman(tm). This message
uses the utf-8 encoding, as discussed at e.g.
http://www.av8n.com/computer/htm/encoding.htm#sec-unicode

All of the following look nice in *my* mailer (Mozilla) and will
probably look fine if you view the archives with a decent browser (if
earlier tests are any guide).

The question is: Are there any mailers or systems out there in
common use that cannot handle utf-8, and/or can't load a font that
has usable glyphs at these codepoints? Please report what works and
what doesn't. If you setup cannot handle utf-8, please invesigate
whether you can upgrade to something that does. (Hint: Thunderbird
is free and reasonably easy to use.) The goal is to build a
consensus as to which symbols can (or cannot) be seen by phys-l
subscribers.

James Clerk Maxwell :
∇ ⋅ E = 4π ρ
∇ × E + 1/c ∂B/∂t = 0
∇ ⋅ B = 0
∇ × B - 1/c ∂E/∂t = 4π c j

Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger :
i ℏ ∂Ψ/∂t = H Ψ
q = 〈Ψ|Q|Ψ〉

Αρχιμηδης

Anders Jonas Ångström

Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted

Theodore von Kármán

Lórand von Eötvös

Николай Егорович Жуковский

à la mode Française :

la théorème de Léon Charles Thévenin

André Marie Ampère

Henri Poincaré

Henri Bénard

Guillaume de L'Hôpital

Miscellaneous:
a · b × c ≡ e ÷ f ± g
q ∝ v²
¼ ≤ ¾
§ † … ⋯

Quite a few more glyphs, which you can cut and paste into your
messages if you wish:
http://www.av8n.com/computer/utf/font-chart.html

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