Re: Strange Characters In Emails
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 08:03:15PM +0100, Chris Willard wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am receving emails that have strange characters in them! Some
> examples are as follows.
>
> \240 - instead of a space
> \243 - instead of a pound sign
>
> Do I need to process the emails before they get to mutt?
>
It's most likely because the sender isn't setting the character set
correctly in the headers. In particular \243 only means a pound sign
if you have set the character set correctly, it can mean different
things in different character sets.
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Chris Green