Re: [NTLK] "Special" characters on the list

From: Jon Glass (jonglass_at_usa.net)
Date: Thu Nov 08 2001 - 01:50:05 EST


on 11/7/01 6:39 PM, Victor Rehorst at victor_at_newtontalk.net 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 don't know if your email will show it, but your quote of Marco's email has
a bunch of garbled text. Even more-s0, Entourage gave me an alert that the
message could not be displayed properly, because it contains an unknown
character set. In the header was this line: Content-type: text/plain;
charset=X-UNKNOWN

Strange...

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