Re: [Sheflug] HTML mail (was Re: Linux)

[Richard Stevenson <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Alex Hudson wrote:

> 5. Symbols, international letters, etc.
> You think £ comes out the same in all text clients? Nope, reliant on
> character set/font/etc. Esp. Windows->other.

Yes, but that last bit's Microsoft's fault: claiming their clients send
ISO-8859-1 when they've added abominations like "smart" quotes and
non-breaking spaces/hyphens using character codes between 128 and 159
inclusive, which are defined neither in ASCII nor in ISO-8859-1.

Cheers

R


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