>I'm having the same problem as everyone else, and I am using OS X's
>mail.app... which is supposedly very good at handling international
>characters. Maybe it is the listserv that strips the characters out, but
>they why could I see them in the first message of this thread?
The so-called weird character triplets are QP characters.
Some mail agent software encode message bodies in QP to be sure that
everything is in 7 bits. It says it does so in the message envelope.
The version of Listar/eCartis running NewtonTalk unfortunately
removes this information in the envelope under some conditions (not
the case with NPDS & NewtonFr mailing lists), so your mail agent does
not decode the triplets.
Here is an example (normally, I post in 8 bits to mailing lists)
=E9=E0=E8=E7.
Now, about OS X mail.app, it's not what I would call a good mail
agent. It apparently ignores the signature marker and transforms it.
Paul
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