[openbeos] Re: [2] Re: Preferences/File Help

  • From: Michael Noisternig <michael.noisternig@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: OpenBeOS List <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 17:53:12 +0100

"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


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