Re: The mysterious substitution of question marks (was Re: Elves and Ill Bethisad)
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 21, 2003, 21:19 |
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On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 03:29:24PM -0400, Robert Wilson wrote:
> how come if i send a message to myself with "=?iso-8859-1?Q?t=E6st?=" as
> the subject it shows it as "=?iso-8859-1?Q?t=E6st?=", and if i send a
> message with "t?st" as the subject it shows it as "t?st"? how can it
> tell the difference?
Because when you set the subject to =?iso-8859-1?Q?t=E6st?=, your
mail program encodes that to make sure it gets through properly without
being misinterpreted. What actually goes out over the wire is
probably =?iso-8859-1?Q?=3D?iso-8859-1?Q?t=3DE6st?=, or something
similar.
-Mark