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

From: Eric L. Strobel (fyzycyst_at_home.com)
Date: Wed Nov 07 2001 - 12:51:29 EST


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."

- Eric.

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