On 21 Feb 2006, Richard Lyons wrote: > OT again, I fear. But can someone enlighten me as to why a steadily > growing proportion of email is full of wierd codes. I can only suppose > they are characters encoded in a way either exim or mutt is failing to > interpret. > > A typical example at random of the kind of thing I mean: > > Annan\222s view is shared by many experts on international law. In > March 2003, the International Commission +of Jurists (ICJ) in Geneva > expressed its \223deep dismay\224 that a small number of states were > \223poised +to launch an outright illegal invasion of Iraq, which > amounts to a war of aggression\224. According to the +ICJ, such > > Am I right in guessing this is something to do with unicode? And if so, > how does one get all emails to be converted to a readable format? > > -- > richard >
I've always assumed this stuff comes from some form of Microsoft email formatting. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
