On Mon, 16 May 2005, Joe Fenton wrote:
Here is a sample of how it came out on my end...
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^�We^�ll be arriving at the Academy in a few minutes.^�
At the shuttlecraft pilot^�s announcement, half of the
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That's not smart quotes, it's the character set.
You're probably in ISO-8859-1 mode while this is
UTF-8. UTF-8 is slowly becoming the character set
of choice. All major linux distros now set UTF-8
as the default. Windows has been UTF-8 since W2K.
Switch the character encoding in the view menu of
your emailer. In Thunderbird, it's
view->Character encoding->Unicode (UTF-8)
If you are in UTF-8, then try switching to
Western (ISO-8859-1) and see if that looks better.
I don't think it is the character set. The email program I am using was
indeed set to ISO-8859-1 but even changing it to UTF-8 had no effect.
Besides, I have been able to read just about every other email and/or
fanfic on this list perfectly well.