In case you missed what Jean Eichheim wrote at 21:02 -0700 on 051116
I have come to believe that the Fibernet computer is programmed to ignore or alter 'non standard' characters in the message bodies to prevent malicious virus, etc. from being able to spread or run on list member's computers. I do not know of any malicious action that can be initiated from the subject line so it *should* be safe.
The body text of messages sent to Fibernet are processed by software called Demime. It's primary function is to get rid of HTML or any Rich Text formatting. The reason for that is that is that HTML or RT make a mess of the Digests produced by Majordomo 1.x mailing list software. Any virus/worm, etc. prevention is incidental. Google the word demime to learn more.
I am typing this mail using an English-language keyboard attached to a Mac 6400 clone with a number of add-on cards and processors and using Mac OS 8.6. I can generate various special characters using some after market software, but they do not get recognized by Majordomo. My mail software is Eudora.
If you take a look at my message of 051116 with the subject Swedish Characters you should see a proper rendering of the three "extra" Swedish characters. That message was send from a modern Mac using OSX.3.9 With that system I can select almost any language and create a keyboard layout in that language. For the 3 Swedish characters I just selected Swedish as the language and used the [, ;, and ' keys to type them, then switched back to an English keyboard layout. In that same message I tried sending xharacters for "degree C" and "degree F" and they were not recognized by my mailer, and were shown as ? characters.
I receive mail in Swedish on both computers, but the one with the newer system software can easily also send Swedish - or any language-specific characters.
Ron Ron Parker - FiberNet list mom [EMAIL PROTECTED] For information http://hem.bredband.net/ronpar/fninfo.html To stop mail temporarily mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: set nomail To restore send: set mail
