Thorn and eth are part of Microsoft's WGL4 character set, which has been
around for more than 10 years. It is a small subset of Unicode. UTF-8 is
one of the encodings for Unicode.
http://www.alanwood.net/demos/wgl4.html
If you are using Windows and you cannot see these characters, then you are
using a program that does not care about Unicode, which is not a Microsoft
standard.
--
Alan Wood
http://www.alanwood.net (Unicode, special characters, pesticide names)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Dropkin [mailto:steve@xxxxxxxxxxx]
>
> Leandro DUTRA wrote:
>
> > It is standard UTF-8. You probably refer to wynn, the
> proper English
> > w instead of the double v ligature currently in usage, and the ſs
> > ligature currently used as eszett in German.
> >
> > Probably some mail server garbled them, or your mail client doesn't
> > implement the standard — I see you use MS Outlook Express,
> check? MS
> > isn't known for standards compliance, rather for
> 'standards' setting,
>
> Thunderbird (Macintosh) shows the unusual characters, as well. So
> many of us are seeing these characters and I know we're not all
> Microsoft Lookout! users. I'm guessing if a mail server is garbling
> characters, it's either yours or the server managing this List.
>
> Steve
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