[Alpine-info] Alpine is converting ? to ??

[M.RossARR]

> On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Mike Miller wrote:

>

> > On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, M.RossARR wrote:

> >

> > I am contacting the source of every email I get, that is not

> > UTF-8, to notify them, & get them to convert. I doubt many know!

> > I am set for UTF-8 now, but I see US-ASCII in the header of the

> > message I reply to - no ref to UTF-8.

>

> So we probably should not bother to notify people who send

> messages with "charset=US-ASCII" in the header, just those with

> "charset=ISO-8859-?" where the question mark is replaced by 1 or

> 15 or whatever.


I agree - I did not intend to imply to notify anybody concerning
US-ASCII, based on Marks report that it is a legal subset of UTF-8.
Other than to tell them it is acceptable as Mark reports. I was just
curious as to why it is reported when the user apparently setup for
UTF-8. I accept default of using the US-ASCII charset.


> By the way, the original subject of this message was "Alpine is

> converting á to ??" but the á character was somehow converted to a

> question mark!


Now that you point it out, I see it changed about the time I first
replied to this thread! Which was a reply to your message reported
as ISO-8859-15; I don't know how it converted, I did not consciously
do it. But I did change my charset at that time to UTF-8.

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