"Marcus Overhagen" <dos4gw@xxxxxx> wrote on 18.01.02 16:14:14: > >Michael Noisternig <michael.noisternig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>"Marcus Overhagen" <dos4gw@xxxxxx> wrote on 17.01.02 17:35:22: >>> >>>Fran >> >>Is this my mail client's problem? This is all I could see from your text. >> >>Well, opened the mail client's raw mailbox file in a hex editor - found the >>ASCII char 0x1A to be the >>conflicting byte. (The word was meant >>to be Francois.) > >The mail was properly typed as >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" >thus allowing for 8bit characters, like 0x1A. >If you mail client fails on them, it's not my fault. > >I think 0x1a is a c with an ^ above. > >regards >Marcus But the first 128 ASCII characters are standardized, and 0x1A is no ^c but a control character as all chars below 0x20. Note: I'm not familiar with the ISO-8859-1 encoding, I'm just curious. Thanks, Michael