 | | Upper-ascii chars in subject line —Jeremy H. Sproat
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| | | Todd, Whoa! I put an upper-ascii character into the subject line of my message. In my newsreader, it comes across fine, but in the Web interface, it comes across as: die Fledermaus der =?iso-8859-1?Q?H=F6lle?= Is this a bug, or shouldn't I have put (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: Upper-ascii chars in subject line —Todd Lehman
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| | | | (...) It's not a bug, no. But it's not a desirable thing, either. What's happening is that your newsreader encoded the non-ASCII (above 127) character into an ASCII format using an ISO-8859-1 mapping. This mapping is decoded by some (not all) (...) (25 years ago, 16-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Upper-ascii chars in subject line —Jeremy H. Sproat
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| | | | (...) Sure, I'll take a swing at it. I think I see how part of the encoding works, though I suspect table look-ups would be necessary. Do you know of a URL I can check out to understand the standard? Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 16-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Upper-ascii chars in subject line —Todd Lehman
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| | | | (...) Allrighty then. :) Having a couple of conversion functions would be very helpful. (...) I -think- it's designed to be a one-to-one and invertible mapping from 8-bit ISO-8859-1 character strings to 7-bit ASCII character strings based entirely (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Upper-ascii chars in subject line —Jeremy H. Sproat
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| | | | (...) Wow, that's pretty much easy then. (...) Oh yeah, I'll check that first. :-, BTW, do you have a preference for which version of Perl? I'm assuming 5.005.x would be fine. I hope you aren't using Perl 4.x. :-P Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 19-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Upper-ascii chars in subject line —Todd Lehman
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| | | | (...) Right -- 5, not 4. --Todd (25 years ago, 19-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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