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From: Victor A. Wagner Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-08-22 03:36:11


Thanks, I'll file a bug report w/ Qualcomm... this is Eudora
At Sunday 2004-08-22 00:26, you wrote:
>Le dim 22/08/2004 à 02:52, Chris Little a écrit :
> > on 8/21/04 7:15 PM, Jonathan Turkanis at technews_at_[hidden] wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > "Victor A. Wagner Jr." <vawjr_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
> > > news:6.1.2.0.2.20040821154559.0527bec0_at_mail.rudbek.com...
> > >> I can't speak for anyone else's EMail setup,
> > >> but messages from you (and you
> > >> alone) seem to be filed with "uppercase A accent circumflex blank"
> > >
> > > On my newsreader Tom's messages are circumflexless.
> > >
> >
> > I believe they're Mac non-breaking spaces. It's one of those characters
> > that isn't in the same position in the Windows character set. I'm assuming
> > that they're an artifact of whatever tool Tom used to write the email text.
>
>They are not Mac non-breaking spaces, they are UTF-8 encoded
>non-breaking spaces (U+00A0, 0xC2 0xA0). People who see a \^A before the
>blank are using newsreaders that don't support unicode. I don't think
>the problem lies with Tom's tools, since his mail headers correctly
>announce "charset=utf-8".
>
>Regards,
>
>Guillaume
>
>
>
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