RE: About oracle-l: some odd combinations of characters

From: Thater, William <William.Thater_at_carrier.utc.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 08:41:36 -0500
Message-ID: <590E1FF8B6A4D4118CB200508B63D23E0AE0680D@carussyrmb01.carrier.utc.com>

Mladen Gogala scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon:

> On 01/29/2004 05:37:01 PM, Barbara Baker wrote:

>> I'm definitely NOT using Outlook, and I see the same thing.
>> 
>> Never noticed it in any of the fatcity messages.

>
> You don't have to use it. When the mail server reads a message written
> in a windows character set, it writes a character like that. The
> problem is the original message encoded in "codepage" character set,
> not an ISO or ASCII. Freelists.org probably have software that doesn't
> speak UTF-8.

hmmmmm... well i am using Outlook and the options are locked down so i can't change them [let's not go there Ok?] so lets see if this message has those characters in them. now i won't see them because i wrote it but maybe someone else will. BTW, this is in the plain text editor.

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