Re: Dialects [OT]
Re: Dialects [OT]
- Subject: Re: Dialects [OT]
- From: Axel Luttgens <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 14:36:10 +0100
Michelle Steiner wrote:
On Dec 15, 2003, at 7:53 PM, Takaaki Naganoya wrote:
call internal "f %i1c.e f f%c+f0h&d:e."
This brain-dead list server software can't display high-order ASCII
characters on the English keyboard, but it has no problem with
Hiragana and Kanji. Go figure.
-- Michelle
It may yet be still more funny.
Takaaki Naganoya's message had following MIME headers:
Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-2022-JP"
Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit
and thus used a pure 7 bit encoding of some japanese character set (JIS
X-0208-1997 to be precise ;-) ).
From the list server's point of view, no problem so far: it just let
those 7 bit characters through, and my client application, as well as
yours, could perfectly render those japanese characters (well, I think
so, as I don't read Japanese...).
Now, you replied to Takaaki Naganoya's message, and I got some gibberish
characters (see above). Looking at the headers, one can read:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by lists.apple.com
So, the list server gracefully removed the quoted-printable encoding
from your mail (as lots of servers now do; don't know whether is is a
good idea or not), but defined the transport as 7 bit...
As a result, some relaying server (or possibly the originating server
itself) stripped the high bit off, and I received a nice UTF-8 message
full of... 0-127 only characters.
Wondering how my message will be handled,
Axel
_______________________________________________
applescript-users mailing list | email@hidden
Help/Unsubscribe/Archives:
http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/applescript-users
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.