begin  quoting Steven E. Harris as of Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 09:45:29AM -0800:
> Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Footnotes work better if distinct symbols are used for each footnote.
> 
> They are Unicode characters B9 (Superscript One), B2 (Superscript
> Two), B3 (Superscript Three), courtesy of Emacs footnote-mode,
> `numeric-latin' style..

Sure, blame Emacs. It's a plausible excuse.  ;-)

> Does your mail client not respect these headers?
 
Don't know, don't care; if it's not ASCII, it shouldn't be in email.

Besides, it's not a mail client issue, but what I set TERM to.

> ,----
> | Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
> | Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> `----
> 
> Those are present on my messages that use three or less footnotes. For
> others, the character set is even less ambitious:

So far, I've only seen a problem with three or less footnotes.

> ,----
> | Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> `----

This is how it should be. Getting cute is just annoying.

-- 
The slippery slope to chaos starts with extending ASCII.
Stewart Stremler


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