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Re: Charset issue?



On 03May2007 17:44, Roland Hill <rolandh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| On Thu, 03 May 2007 or thereabouts, Cameron Simpson came forth with:
| > | I just checked 3 posts from the sender whose messages I am having the
| > | display issues with.
| > | The mailer never changes, yet the charset has been:
| > | us-ascii
| > | utf-8
| > | iso-8859-1
| > | .....with the later 2 giving display problems.
| 
| > Wow. You know that US-ASCII is only 128 characters, and thus \2xx codes must
| > not occur in it at all - they're out of range?
| 
| us-ascii was the only one that did display correctly. It was utf-8 and
| iso-8859-1 that didn't.

Yes, that's what's so weird.
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