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  Re: A Change
 
(...) Hi, I'm using the ISO-8859-1 (Latin 1) superset; and I bet that every newsreader written or updated in the last five years can handle that too. But usually only Windows machines can handle the additional characters in Codepage 1252. I don’t do (...) (21 years ago, 8-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.general)
 
  Re: A Change
 
(...) How should anything know that your message is using this "codepage 1252"? The message headers specify that you're using the standard iso-8859-1 charset -- but you're not. You've got a bunch of characters using mappings that are reserved for (...) (21 years ago, 8-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: A Change
 
(...) huh, funny how that works. I'm running mutt that was compiled on April 20th, 2003. So yes, I'm sure it _can_ handle all the current standards. (...) you mean only windows machines ignore the standards, and show characters that don't really (...) (21 years ago, 8-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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