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.
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