"mark lewis -> mark lewis"  wrote   
   in news:381$fido.jamnntpd@JamNNTPd:   
      
    ml> "mark lewis -> Scott Street" <1:3634/12> wrote in news:380   
    ml> $fido.jamnntpd@JamNNTPd:   
      
      
    SS>>> Continued:   
      
    SS>>> However, adding any 8bit character:   like this one,  a former   
    SS>>> IBM Graphic characters double lines in a box   
      
    SS>>> Gamm•”Gamm•�Gamm•�Gamm•�Gamm•—   
    SS>>> Gamm•‘   Gamm•‘   
    SS>>> Gamm•šGamm•�Gamm•�Gamm•�Gamm•�   
      
   still in my regular non-utf-8 news reader... it still says gamm for some but   
   others seem to have been converted back or dropped... need more data but not   
   right now...   
      
    ml>> looks like foo in this CP437 sysop reader and i know it will also   
    ml>> in my news reader which doesn't know what utf-8 is from   
    ml>> applesauce...   
      
    ml> wow! and now it has been xlated to c4rp that i can barely read... going   
    ml> back in this quote may or may not be "pretty"...   
      
   well, dunno, yet, how it looks on the pure fido side... but will "soon" ;)   
      
    ml>> thunderbird, on the other hand, will read it just fine, i'm   
    ml>   sure... ml> maybe... will test and reply from there later...   
      
    ml> yeah. it ain't "later" yet ;)   
      
   still ain't later" :P   
      
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   )\/(ark - remove .my.foot to email me, capiche?   
      
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