He seems to be using the email digests. It's possible that the digest feature doesn't take encoding into account. That wouldn't surprise me given how old and unmaintained the listserv software is.
Regards, Elias On 5 February 2014 15:28, Jay Foad <[email protected]> wrote: > The emails I get are full of beautifully rendered APL. Maybe it's a > problem with your mail client? I'm reading them in Gmail. > > Jay. > > On 5 February 2014 05:44, David B. Lamkins <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'd really like to follow bug-apl via email, except that the mailer > > doesn't seem to grok Unicode. All non-ASCII characters get replaced with > > a `?'. > > > > Looking at the headers, I see (excerpted): > > > > ... > > From: [email protected] > > Subject: Bug-apl Digest, Vol 6, Issue 4 > > To: [email protected] > > Reply-To: [email protected] > > Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 12:00:16 -0500 > > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > ... > > > > If I'm correct in assuming that Content-Type and > > Content-Transfer-Encoding have been set by the mailer, then that > > suggests that the mailer is folding Unicode to ASCII and wiping out all > > that beautiful APL code. :( > > > > > > > > > >
