How do you finance/afford your computer collection? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

22 Jun 2000

On Jun 22,  8:18, Marvin wrote:
...
  Geoff Roberts wrote:

 I see your msgs in a stretched font.  Quite different from all the
 others.

 In the headers of your msg, we see:-
 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=x-user-defined

 In the top toolbar when you are writing or replying to a msg.
 It will be set to user-defined.
 Set it to Western European (Windows) and it will revert to ISO-8859-1
 which seems to be straight ASCII. 
 Okay, I just changed it from user-defined to Western. Is this message coming
...
  through okay? FWIW, I've been using Netscape for
years with no problems that
...
  *I* am aware of :). 
Yes.  The headers in Marvin's message said "charset=us-ascii".  But you
ought to realise that ISO-8859-x is not ASCII; the lower 128 characters are
the same but the remaining 128 (top bit set) are foreign-language
characters and additional symbols -- ASCII is a 7-bit character code while
the ISO 8859 ones are all 8-bit.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York