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16 Apr 2024 02:12:44 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Outsmarting a broken Web interface  
From: Thorsten
Date: 13 Oct 2020 04:15:41
Message: <5f85622d$1@news.povray.org>
On 10.09.2020 03:10, Cousin Ricky wrote:
> Cousin Ricky <ric### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
>> This post is a test.  It is only a test.
>>
>> I just changed my Thunderbird character encoding to UTF-8, in the hope
>> that the Web interface won't overcorrect ISO-8859-1 text and print
>> things like "Bézier" when it sees "Bézier," and formulas like
>>
>>     P(t) = (1-t)³*P1 + 3*(1-t)²*t*P2 + 3*(1-t)*t²*P3 + t³*P4
>>
>> will show correctly, instead of my having to fire up Thunderbird just to
>> read a message.  Although I prefer a newsreader for posting, the Web
>> interface is most convenient for reading though the messages.  And maybe
>> we'll see less "Â Â Â" in replies where there should be just whitespace.
> 
> Nope, didn't work.  The Web interface is just broken.

In Firefox this looks fine at 
http://news.povray.org/povray.off-topic/thread/%3C5f851e8d%241%40news.povray.org%3E/ 


Thorsten


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