[rescue] OT: broken de-MIME-ers should be shot! ;-)

[Gregory Leblanc]

On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 14:12, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> 
> > > I wholeheartedly DISagree with that statement.  I like de-MIME, and have
> > > even considered running it on my personal mail server.
> 
> > De-MIME-ing is good when it removes what you don't like.
> 
> > It's very bad when it removes what you need to make a message
> > intelligible.
> 
> > It's even worse when it converts what you have into something incorrect,
> > as in changing my degree symbols into zeros.  Grrrr!!!!  BUG!!!!
> 
> I think the problem here is most of us are using ASCII mail readers.  Greg
> is using ISO-8859-1 (is that right?) which has a degree symbol.  Since DeMIME
> is bringing it to plain old ASCII text, that degree symbol needs to be
> translated into something.

I dunno, my mailer lets me tweak what character set it uses, and even
when I force it to ISO-8859-1, I still don't get degree symbols.  Looks
like something smooshed the degree symbols into 0's before it got to me.
	Greg (no, the other Greg)

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