Re: character encoding in email
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
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