There are different character sets that you can use to send email
messages, for example ASCII and ASCII extended. Your emailer 'fesses up
about which set it is using when it sends out an email message to that
if you had any extra characters in the message, the receiving email
client can take a stab at displaying the message correctly. The digest
is set up as a straight text presenter but inserts the warning so that
if a message seems to be garbled due to the extra characters that may
be inserted you will know why. To explain that a bit more; each font
has a code for each character, but the extended set of characters are
not cross compatible so character 132 in Times font may not be the same
as in Mysako font.
Jerry
On Feb 23, 2004, at 5:48 PM, Robert M. Klein wrote:
> On 2/23/04 5:15 PM, "macgroup-digest"
> <owner-macgroup-digest at erdos.math.louisville.edu> emailed:
>
>> Note: The following section was composed using a keyboard
>> ("ISO-8859-1")
>> that uses characters other than those in the US-ASCII character set.
>> Some
>> characters may not be displayed properly when you view this message.
>
> When you read this message, the Note above probably was at the
> beginning. It
> appeared before my last post.
>
> Forgive me if this has been covered before, but why? I am using a
> standard
> Apple keyboard and writing email to the list in non-HTML mode. Just
> curious.
>
> Robert
>
>
>
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