On 19 Mar 2008 14:14 +0000, by cl@xxxxxxxx (Chris G): > Here are some incorrect pound signs:- > > ��������������������������������������������������������?� This shows up to me (on a thoroughly UTF-8 system) as 56 undisplayable glyps, one question mark, and one more undisplayable glyph. Both gnome-terminal (cat and nano), gedit, and Emacs (in X) all give the same result. The binary data as stored in my mail spool is EF BF BD or U+FFFD "replacement character". According to the GNOME character map this is "used to replace an incoming character whose value is unknown or unrepresentable in Unicode". So something is mangling your message, and my first guess at a suspect would be the editor still not understanding UTF-8 properly. Maybe someone can look at how this came through their end and confirm that suspicion, to rule out the possibility of my mail server doing something illicit, but if it is on my end, it's a first for me. > Here are some correct (as in correctly encoded as utf-8 by my editor) > pound signs:- > > ������ Same as above, except only six U+FFFD. -- Michael Kjörling .. michael@xxxxxxxxxxx .. http://michael.kjorling.se * ..... No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings ..... * * ENCRYPTED email preferred -- OpenPGP key ID: 0x 758F8749 BDE9ADA6 * * ASCII Ribbon Campaign: Against HTML mail, proprietary attachments *
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