Dear Spiders, The appearance of extended ASCII characters (the proper term for these unusual characters) has nothing to do with the age of Arachne's server at panix.com. Servers and software ARE updated, swapped out for newer models, and patched. Just because you have been on Arachne for 20+ years does not mean that the hardware and majordomo have not changed! :-)
If you want to know more, this Wikipedia article explains it well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_ASCII Here's another: http://developer.telemessage.com/faq/how-do-i-encode-non-ascii-characters-in-an-email-subject-line Since this discussion is not lace-related, I suggest that it be moved either to lace chat or to private emails. Thank-you, Avital Arachne Moderator P.S. Please try to trim quoted posts. Everyone forgets from time to time (I forgot when I posted about Burano and lace), but I'm still here, keeping an eye on the list traffic and sending gentle reminders when I see lots of >>>> in the digest. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
