On 03/13/2003, Peter wrote: >In the messages from manfred and others about the accented characters in >emails, for some reason don't come though to my end. Instead of the >actual character, I saw a code made up of an equal-sign and two >characters. They (hopefully) appear below- I described them just in case >they appear as normal accented characters to you folks: > >=E4,=F6,=FC,=DF > >Could this be because I'm on AOL and AOL doesn't support these high-ascii >characters or is it a local font issue, or something I'm completely >missing? > Peter, I don't think it's neccessarily AOL, since I (receiving this list in digest mode) at times notice some of the posts (like some of Laurent's sigs) come through with the =E4, etc. - but others (from the same person) come through fine. My 2 cents? - (to borrow a term from Calvin & Hobbs) the characters get "transmogrified" along the way by a forwarding mail server... ;-)
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