[plug] Bill's enhanced standards (Re: [plug] Massive DoS attack?)

[Sham Chukoury]

On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 16:30, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> There are a dozen or so characters (including what Microsoft calls "smart
> quotes") which are not defined in the iso8859 character set; they're in
> microsoft-cp1252 and iso10646 (and MacRoman), but Outlook specified the
> character set in the headers as iso8859.  The quotes and apostrophes and
> the like in your first message turned out as _s in my mailer. (For some
> reason, the second message looks fine.)

Aha! So it's those smart quotes that are causing all the trouble...
Hmmm... I should find a way of turning them off. Or maybe I'll get
Ximian Evolution working thru VMWare on the Linux box. :) Thanks for the
heads up.
And the reason why the second message (as well as this current one)
looked fine is because I sent it from Ximian Evolution, not MS Outlook.
:)

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