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

Kurt Mosiejczuk kurt at csh.rit.edu
Wed Apr 17 16:36:12 CDT 2002


On 17 Apr 2002, Gregory Leblanc wrote:

[snip]
> > 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)

Well, like I said above, DeMIME is translating into straight ASCII.  Before
it ever gets to your inbox.  If Mr.Woods sent you an email direct, I'm
betting you would see the degree symbol with settings for ISO-8859-1.

--Kurt



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