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|    mark lewis to Scott Street    |
|    xlat bug?    |
|    21 Jun 12 19:52:24    |
       SS> Continued:               SS> However, adding any 8bit character: like this one, a former IBM        SS> Graphic characters double lines in a box               SS> ╔═══╗        SS> ║ ║        SS> ╚═══╝              looks like foo in this CP437 sysop reader and i know it will also in my news       reader which doesn't know what utf-8 is from applesauce... thunderbird, on the       other hand, will read it just fine, i'm sure... maybe... will test and reply       from there later...               SS> This will be translated - and should be.              i see it has "CHRS UTF-8 2"... will have to see what it does when read from a       news client...               SS> Well, might not be if you don't have utf-8 to iso8859-1 setup; if        SS> that is the case, then this message should come across as        SS> Content-type: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit.              yeah, i think i've reverted to the original setup because most of what i use       doesn't do UTF-8 :?               SS> Good luck.              tnx!              )\/(ark               * Origin: (1:3634/12)    |
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