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Re: Backwards Compatibility (Was Calling all Meta-commands)
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Date: 
Sun, 16 Mar 2003 19:31:55 GMT
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Well, such problems
are less common than for some years ago, but still it is a source for
errors. (Look at some posts at lugnet.loc.se, and you'll see what those
ASCII table settings can course!)



What I mean is:

http://news.lugnet.com/loc/se/?n=1349 for example. Quite corrupted and hard
to read - even for us who understand Swedish. ;-) I don't know whether
brackets will be cause the same kind of problems, but there is a risk. Then
a line from a posted part or model may turn up something like:
0 =?iso-8859-1?Q?=E2META=E3 FOO BAR
instead of
0 {META} FOO BAR

/Tore



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  Re: Backwards Compatibility (Was Calling all Meta-commands)
 
(...) This problem is not due to the Swedish character set, but rather a problem with the Lugnet web interface. The Lugnet web interface does not support RFC2047 encoded header fields, that explains the problems with the subject line. I have (...) (22 years ago, 17-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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  Re: Backwards Compatibility (Was Calling all Meta-commands)
 
(...) I don't know about American keyboards, but at my Swedish kb, '{' and '}' are at AltGr+7 and AltGr+0, and it collides with Swedish special characters in the ASCII table; it has to be set on codepage 850 or whatever it was. I find them somewhat (...) (22 years ago, 16-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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