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Re: Upper-ascii chars in subject line
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 16 Apr 1999 19:51:14 GMT
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jsproat@NOSPAMgeocities.com
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Todd Lehman wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.general, jsproat@geocities.com (Sproaticus) writes:
> > die Fledermaus der =?iso-8859-1?Q?H=F6lle?=
> This encoding (and a couple others) appear from time to time, and at some
> point it'll make sense to write a script to convert these on the fly to 8-
> bit ISO-8859-1 character values rather than leaving them in their encoded
> form. The same script could be used to go back and retrofit old articles
> with this encoding. Probably sometime in the summer, unless you'd like to
> volunteer to write the converter.
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
--
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 | | Re: Upper-ascii chars in subject line
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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 (...) (27 years ago, 17-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Upper-ascii chars in subject line
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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) (...) (27 years ago, 16-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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