Re: Hexadecimal digits?

From: Mark E. Shoulson (mark@kli.org)
Date: Tue Nov 11 2003 - 23:51:55 EST

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    Doug Ewell wrote:

    ><jameskass at att dot net> wrote:
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    >
    >
    >>>... and not one which somehow converted James' UTF-8
    >>>into Mojibake as above.
    >>>
    >>>
    >>This may be the fault of my ISP, the illustrious AT&T's "Webmail".
    >>It may not properly tag my outgoing messages as UTF-8. A colleague
    >>has written privately to say that it was necessary to manually set
    >>the character set to UTF-8 in order for my contrived example to
    >>display.
    >>
    >>
    >
    >No, it came out fine on my screen. I mean, I didn't see the MAS glyphs,
    >because I'm not using Code2001 as my default e-mail font. But I did see
    >the correct number of black .notdef boxes (four), without having to set
    >anything.
    >
    >
    I got garbage, until I explicitly set the character coding to UTF-8; it
    had auto-set to 8859-1. Mozilla 1.4. Go ye and figure.

    ~mark



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