[LMB] (chat) two new foreign editions

[Michael R N Dolbear]

> From: Scott Raun <sraun at fireopal.org>
> Date: 30 October 2006 22:46
> 
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 10:02:15PM -0000, Michael R N Dolbear wrote:
> > La Chasse Sacr?e
> 
> I see a ? here instead of the accented vowel.  That might be true
> universally - many mailing list packages run 7-bit ASCII (?) - they
> won't display upper ASCII characters, they just set the highest bit to
> zero.

Mel our listmistress is running the same listserv software (Mailman) as you
do for the Liad list at fireopal.org  and no longer strips the eighth bit.
Thus everyone will get upper ASCII characters, anyone using Latin-1 should
be fine but it is no longer the case that all listees will see the same
thing.

> I know my mailer usually won't read them - I'm running mutt, a pure
> text e-mail package on a linux box.

The email text came back to me exactly as I sent it

La Chasse Sacrée,

I did say the Linux and Mac users are likely to see something else. ==

If mutt doesn't strip the eighth bit you could look at the text in hex or
fiddle about with a browser or some other tool that knows about Latin-1  ,
UTF-8 and such.


Little Egret