How to deal with High ASCII (umlauts etc)

[Trevor Smith]

On Thu, 13 Apr 2000 23:40:44 +0200 (CED), Alexander Sarras wrote:

>On Thu, 13 Apr 2000 23:02:45 +0200, Jonas T Larsson wrote:
>
>> If you get mails that have high ascii chars substituted for a diversity
>> of erroneous chars (in my case several times a day) you can restore the
>> right chars by pressing alt-v alt-v. This is of course just a temporary
>> workaround till BSW gets a corrected version out. At least it makes my
>> mails possible to read.
>> 
>> Unfortunately this does not solve the problems with substitutions when
>> escaping to an external editor this bug is persistent. Ralph, is this
>> bug in your list?
>
>Since I have not seen such behaviour I trust this is a PMMail for Windows
>problem only. Anyone seen something like that (except malformed
>non-RC822-conformant messages) in PMMail/2?

I was going to ask the same question. I have occasionally seen
messages with "strange characters" but they are almost always
Microsoft "curly quote mark" characters and other similar characters
of a codepage not explicitly specified in the email header,
presumably because the sender's client assumes that every email
client in the world defaults to Microsoft's codepage-du-jour.


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