Re: charset fixing at display time
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 05:27:56PM -0200, Carlos Laviola wrote:
> > [23 lines, 170 words, 954 characters] Top characters: etoarnis
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 05:55:09PM -0500, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> > > Some email arrive with eight bit characters that are not interpreted
> > > correctly. Mostly, these are punctuation: octal 222 for single quote,
> > > octal 223 and 224 for double quotes, octal 226 for dash.
\223 isn't a printable character in en_US (none of the codes 128-159 are).
Perhaps your correspondent is using Outlook.
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