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Re: The mysterious substitution of question marks (was Re: Elves and Ill Bethisad)

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 21, 2003, 1:39
Every accented character in Padraic's message came through as a
question mark here - because the Content-Type: header said
that the character set was ASCII.  Accented characters
don't exist in ASCII. :)

> I get em from John all the time. Each of his > responses to J?rg Rhiemeier come to me as "J?rg > Rheimeier scripsit".
[ . . . ]
> M?ry h?d a l?ttle l?mb, > his fl??ce was wh?te as snow; > ?veryplace that M?ry w?nt, > the lamb was ?ure to g?. >
[ . . .]
> ===== > - Nos c?sez yen fin xristian?s et trancouil > > - C?sez-el a Ddon!