Re: 8-bit on mailing list (was Re: Wierd error)
Re: 8-bit on mailing list (was Re: Wierd error)
- Subject: Re: 8-bit on mailing list (was Re: Wierd error)
- From: Walter Ian Kaye <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 13:35:30 -0700
At 03:56p -0400 09/24/2003, Arthur J. Knapp didst inscribe upon an
electronic papyrus:
> Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 09:19:03 -0700
> From: Walter Ian Kaye <email@hidden>
>>> On 9/23/03 5:23 AM, Paul Skinner <email@hidden> wrote:
> Wow, 8-bit characters on this list...
Nope, sorry. :)
> Looks like they're the wrong characters anyway, though. (solid
> diamond and solid apple -- probably supposed to be curly quotes)
You are using a Mac system font to view your email. I use Courier,
and what I see are two boxes, ie: control characters, well within the
ASCII range.
set s to "Paul Skinner"
{ASCII number s's character 1, ASCII number s's character -1}
{19, 20} --> System font's diamond and apple symbols
Right. I figured it out after sending the email, which you'll see
after you get the followup email (which you probably will have
already seen by the time this message arrives;).
The interesting thing would be to find out what logic is at work
here... why does the server end up showing ASCIIs 19 and 20 for
the curly quotes, (ASCIIs 210, 211)?
Hmm. {19, 20} plus 128 for each would be {147, 148} -- Windows-1252 charset.
When Mac email is sent in Latin-1, some characters are transliterated
into the C1 control range. I don't know who came up with that, but
it's how it's been done for the past decade. :)
-boo
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