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.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Thu Jun 22 2000 - 14:48:25 BST