[JA] Re: What's this in the Subject Line
- From: James E Henderson <jim.henderson@xxxxxxxx>
- To: juno_accmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 21:43:06 -0500
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On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 09:14:05 -0800 babette bloch <bvcb@xxxxxxxx> writes:
GL> Note that some mail programs such as Outlook Express automatically
> decode Subject lines entered in this manner and instead of seeing...
> ?iso-8859-1?b?UxmI9met-and-so-on... you'll see "Re:Get discounted
> Vi*gra..." or whatever.
BB> However, how come such a line appeared in a
> perfectly OK message from a friend, with his regular
> subject line in the middle of the coded stuff?
Depending on what mailer version he's using, probably he used a special
character not included in ASCII but included in iso-8859-1 coding. One
accented vowel or other character can force the whole subject line to be
encoded with the later coding.
ASCII, incidentally, is identical to iso-8859-1 for most characters, so a
program intended to read ASCII will be able to see many characters
correctly.
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