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Re: about the use of button

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  • Subject: [mg115392] Re: about the use of button
  • From: Bill Rowe <readnews at sbcglobal.net>
  • Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 02:35:38 -0500 (EST)

On 1/9/11 at 2:18 AM, sydgeraghty at me.com (Syd Geraghty) wrote:

>Whilst on this topic do other people see a lot of strange character
>errors/misinterpretations as in the following example? I seem to get
>a lot!

>"Philipp Wei=C3=9Fgraeber"

Yes, I see this reasonably often. My understanding is this is a
MIME encoding for characters with codes in the range of 128-255.
I believe the only way to ensure this doesn't occur is to
restrict an email to character sets that can be represented with 7-bits.



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