On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 18:49:37 -0700, alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Powermail appears to disagree with other email programs about the meaning > of certain high-byte characters. > > As you can see, the sequence =B9 is trying to represent the right quote > character ', or html entity ’ which is &rsquo. However, Powermail > displays this character with the digit "1", not the right quote > character. I believe that the bug here is Powermail's, but don't have all > the resources at my fingertips to prove it. (Of course, if you choose > "Show HTML" the intended text is shown correctly). > > Can anyone comment further? > > (I have seen this bug for a long time, but only recently did I bother to > look into its source) > > Alan
0xB9, in iso 8859-1, is a superscripted 1. http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/charset/iso160-191.html The sender's email program lied about its character encoding. The best Powermail could do is keep a list of offending programs and override encodings. It's a feature that I have no particular preference for, and would much rather have its implementation time spent on webkit integration :-) -ls -- Evil will win because good is dumb.
