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Steve Hayes
Apr 3, 2012, 1:55:19 PM4/3/12
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> 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?
>
> 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?
>
> 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
Ray_Net
Mar 25, 2013, 3:56:32 AM3/25/13
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In article <53emn79fdtdq83cid...@4ax.com>, haye...@telkomsa.net
says...
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.
says...
>
> > The strange letters you received:
> >
> I recently had a messagr from a mailing list where a surname came through like
> this:
>
> Boullé's
> > The strange letters you received:
> >
> I recently had a messagr from a mailing list where a surname came through like
> this:
>
>
> 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
> I asked about it on the list, and this is the reply I received:
>
> > Monday, April 2, 2012, 7:09:51 PM, you wrote:
> >
> > South Africa?
> >
> > SH> Boull WHO?
It look like an UTF8 character inside an html mail sspecifying that the html part is
> >
> > SH> Boull WHO?
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.
Bill McCray
Mar 25, 2013, 8:11:04 AM3/25/13
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Attachments, Annotations, and Raw View. Clicking the Raw View tab shows
the source of the message with no translation.
Bill
Michael in der Wiesche
Mar 25, 2013, 11:02:12 AM3/25/13
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Am 03.04.2012, 19:55 Uhr, schrieb Steve Hayes <haye...@telkomsa.net>:
>> The strange letters you received:
>>
> I recently had a messagr from a mailing list where a surname came
> through like
> this:
>
> Boullé's
>> The strange letters you received:
>>
> I recently had a messagr from a mailing list where a surname came
> through like
> this:
>
It might be due to a limitation in Pegasus Mail's current mail storing
mechanism, see <http://community.pmail.com/forums/thread/37629.aspx> for
details.
Michael
--
PGP Key ID (RSA 2048): 0xC45D831B
PGP Plugin for Pegasus Mail: <http://www.pmpgp.de/pmpgp/>
S/MIME Fingerprint: 26 5c a3 60 02 c6 e3 8a 75 70 d5 6a 67 ff d3 8d b0 b5
5e 5b
Ray_Net
Mar 25, 2013, 6:40:09 PM3/25/13
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In article <kipesp$18p$1...@news.albasani.net>, billm...@mindspring.com says...
Thanks for this info - sometimes very useful.
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