2 Nov
2002
2 Nov
'02
6:45 a.m.
On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Sellam Ismail wrote:
John,
I can never quite get used to reading your messages with these ridiculous
escape codes spread throughout. This has been the case pretty much since
you first signed on to this mailing list.
See above.
I've tried to tolerate it (and have strained to make sense of what is
going on with your messages) but I have to object finally. It seems
special punctuation characters (brackets, apostrophes, quote marks) are
being escaped in some wacky fashion.
What the hell is going on with your mail sender?
I don't think John is aware of it, or can even see the characters as
such in his mail client. From his mail headers one can see that the
likely culprit is Outlook:
-> MIME-Version: 1.0
-> Content-Type: text/plain;
-> charset="utf-7"
-> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
-> X-Priority: 3
-> X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
-> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200
-> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200
I'm not sure how one disables the annoying non-standard escape sequences
used by Microsoft's mail clients. ISTR someone else having this same
problem several months ago. There's probably some way to disable this,
but I'll be damned if I ever launch a Microsoft mail client. I've
avoided ever doing so thus far, and I'm not about to taint myself at
this point--even if it is for a good cause. :-)
-brian.