On 23 October 2012 09:27, Tim <ignored_mailbox(a)yahoo.com.au> wrote:
To re-write the instructions, which I'm sure were from another
message
thread, the line being added to the GRUB file should be two words
separated by an underscore, equals, eight-hundred by six-hundred:
GRUB_GFXMODE=800x600
The UTF-7 encoding seemed to be encoding the underscore, and the equals
signs. Which seems peculiar characters to have to encode, rather than
send as-is, because they're part of 7-bit US-ASCII.
In brief, UTF-7 attempts to represent unicode in a 7bit character set,
this means some characters from a 7bit set need to be used for control
sequences and have to be encoded. In practice only "+" really has to
be, but all the 'optional direct characters' might be, see
<
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-7>. Contrast UTF-8 where all
low-byte characters are 'un-encoded' and only high byte characters are
used in the multi-byte codes.
Anyway, after all this hijacking of my original message, had anybody
else tried what I did to make Skype work? Not needed to? Had a
different experience?
Haven't used it in a while, will investigate later.
--
imalone
http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk