at the temporal coordinates: 11/7/01 1:29 PM, the entity known as Laurent
Daudelin at laurent_daudelin_at_fanniemae.com conveyed the following:
>
> on 11/7/01 12:51 PM, Eric L. Strobel at fyzycyst_at_home.com wrote:
>
>> at the temporal coordinates: 11/7/01 12:39 PM, the entity known as Victor
>> Rehorst at victor_at_newtontalk.net conveyed the following:
>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Marco Mailand wrote:
>>>
>>>> You caught me! And you're completely right:
>>>> It should be: Viele Gr=FC=DFe!
>>>> But I think this would never be transmitted and arrive as I wrote. All th=
>>> ose
>>>> special characters will be mangled and transformed into whatsoever and
>>>> everybody will get something else. So what's really wrong with it:
>>>> - =E4, =F6, =FC, =C4, =D6 and =DC can be replaced with ae, oe, ue, Ae, Oe=
>>> and Ue as is
>>>
>>> Notice how in Marco's post the characters came out alright. That's
>>> because his mail client specifies the ISO-8859-1 character set, which
>>> Listar *can* handle (and which is better anyways).
>>>
>>
>> I think I missed this somewhere (the original quoted reference). However, I
>> got all *kinds* of =this and =that in your message (in the stuff you
>> quoted). Plus Outlook warning me that "This message may not be displayed
>> properly because it contains an unknown character set."
>
> Same for me in Entourage. The initial message from Marco quoted above did
> appear fine, with all foreign characters being displayed properly. Now, with
> Victor's reply, we start to see those characters being replaced with
> printed-quotable things like =E4 and the likes. This is what is very
> annoying!
>
> -Laurent.
And, in fact, in Outlook I've got the selection made to display in ISO.
- Eric.
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