On 2002-10-30 at 12:23:53, David Wheeler wrote: > This tells me that Mail.app, for some reason, didn't know that it was > supposed to use UTF-8 when showing Larry's mail. When I pasted his mail > into a UTF-8 document in Emacs, it looked fine. > > Given that it's probably UTF-8 that Perl 6 source code is written in, I > think that you and I might be better off using a smarter mailer. > > David Larry's mail was *marked* as UTF-8, but by the time I got it it had no French quotes in it in UTF-8, Latin-1, or any other encoding anymore. My mailer understand UTF-8 just fine, and so does vim (which I used to look at my spool file to check for encoding oddities); in my copy of his message, there's just nothing there. All I can think is that some MTA along the way - possibly our very own Exchange server - stripped them out.
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