As long as the encoding is set to 7bit, the eighth bit should be
cleared. This obviously is not happening; I got all the Spanish
characters Sam sent except one. Still, what does happen is pos-
sibly system dependent. This may well include some or all of the
systems which are involved in the mail transmission! Eight-bit
encoding should be safer.
Ken Martwick
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Richard Menedetter wrote:
> Hi
>
> Marie Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> MF> i have a feeling that encoding should be 8bit ... however, i looked at
> MF> some messages i had sent with arachne - they were iso-8859-1, 7bit and
> MF> i could see the �'s, �'s and �'s (that's ä ö ü)
>
> This is a bug in Insight.
> If you use 8 bit characters (eg ���) than Arachne should tell correctly
> 8bit)
>
> Michael ??
>
> MF> marie
>
> CU, Ricsi
>
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> -=> "Positive thinking" ... leads to miscalculation <=-
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