I recently had a messagr from a mailing list where a surname came through like
this:
Boullé's
I asked about it on the list, and this is the reply I received:
> Monday, April 2, 2012, 7:09:51 PM, you wrote:
> >> Can anyone provide me with info on when the Boullé's came to
> South Africa?
> SH> Boull WHO?
> Must be an artefact of your email viewer. My email client (The Bat)
> using its text only view, transcribes the letters perfectly well, as
> do, as it appears from messages in reply, do most other people's.
> In my email viewer the two odd letters are replaced by an e acute.
In the reply, the name in the haeader, and in the body of the message, was
quite readable.
I have had a number of other messages with strange cvharacters in them --
capital A with two dots over it, Euro signs, trademark signs and the like.
People blame my reader, Pegasus, for them, but I find that when the guy who
replied top me above quoted the original, it came through fine.
What is causing this, and is there anything I can do about it?
-- Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk
> I recently had a messagr from a mailing list where a surname came through like
> this:
> Boullé's
> I asked about it on the list, and this is the reply I received:
> > Monday, April 2, 2012, 7:09:51 PM, you wrote:
> > >> Can anyone provide me with info on when the Boullé's came to
> > South Africa?
> > SH> Boull WHO?
It look like an UTF8 character inside an html mail sspecifying that the html part is not charset utf-8 but something like: charset=windows-1252 or charset=iso-8859-15
You have to look in the source os the mail. I don't know if Pegasus offer what SeaMonkey offer - a right-click gives in the pop-up menu the "View mail source" choice.
> In article <53emn79fdtdq83cid3f6p9vio00vu0h...@4ax.com>, hayes...@telkomsa.net
> says...
>>> The strange letters you received:
>> I recently had a messagr from a mailing list where a surname came through like
>> this:
>> Boullé's
>> I asked about it on the list, and this is the reply I received:
>>> Monday, April 2, 2012, 7:09:51 PM, you wrote:
>>> >> Can anyone provide me with info on when the Boullé's came to
>>> South Africa?
>>> SH> Boull WHO?
> It look like an UTF8 character inside an html mail sspecifying that the html part is
> not charset utf-8 but something like: charset=windows-1252 or charset=iso-8859-15
> You have to look in the source os the mail. I don't know if Pegasus offer what
> SeaMonkey offer - a right-click gives in the pop-up menu the "View mail source"
> choice.
In Pegasus, there are tabs across the top of a message: Message, Attachments, Annotations, and Raw View. Clicking the Raw View tab shows the source of the message with no translation.
> On 3/25/2013 3:56 AM, Ray_Net wrote:
> > In article <53emn79fdtdq83cid3f6p9vio00vu0h...@4ax.com>, hayes...@telkomsa.net
> > says...
> >>> The strange letters you received:
> >> I recently had a messagr from a mailing list where a surname came through like
> >> this:
> >> Boullé's
> >> I asked about it on the list, and this is the reply I received:
> >>> Monday, April 2, 2012, 7:09:51 PM, you wrote:
> >>> >> Can anyone provide me with info on when the Boullé's came to
> >>> South Africa?
> >>> SH> Boull WHO?
> > It look like an UTF8 character inside an html mail sspecifying that the html part is
> > not charset utf-8 but something like: charset=windows-1252 or charset=iso-8859-15
> > You have to look in the source os the mail. I don't know if Pegasus offer what
> > SeaMonkey offer - a right-click gives in the pop-up menu the "View mail source"
> > choice.
> In Pegasus, there are tabs across the top of a message: Message, > Attachments, Annotations, and Raw View. Clicking the Raw View tab shows > the source of the message with no translation.
