On 6/28/04 9:14 AM, Peter C.S. Adams at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thus spake Larry Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, circa 6/28/2004: >> E-mail servers don't do anything with the "Data" part of a message >> other than to pass it on and a Received header. There's no reason for >> them to need to "understand" curly quotes or anything. > > Dan was referring to the fact that some very old servers will only handle > 7-bit ASCII. The original ASCII specification had only 128 characters > (2^7=128), including null and control characters, leaving just enough room > for upper and lowercase letters, numbers, and basic punctuation.
OK, that makes more sense. -- Larry Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stonejongleux.com/ -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
