tlug: RE: ISO-8859

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Jonathan" == 3Web  <- Jonathan Byrne" <jq@example.com>> writes:

    >> ISO-8859 doesn't allow any graphic characters in 0x00-0x1F or
    >> 0x7F.  Those are control characters.

    Jonathan> What graphic characters did dear little Outlook Express
    Jonathan> stick in there?  My mail is *supposed* to be plain text
    Jonathan> :-(

Yep :-)

    Jonathan> z : 1998N312z 18:34

I would guess that the line above is supposed to look like

		      $BF|;~(B : 1998$BG/(B3$B7n(B12$BF|(B 18:34

but some mailer (not necessarily yours) stripped the high bits off of
the leading bytes of Shift-JIS kanji turning them into Shit-JIS.  I've
never seen this particular variation of mojibake before.  :-)

Regards,
Steve

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