YTSEJAM digest 6115

From: ytsejam@torchsong.com
Date: Mon Feb 18 2002 - 00:49:52 EST

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                                YTSEJAM Digest 6115

    Today's Topics:

      1) What's in a name?
     by "Sergey Shilov" <shilov@email.kht.ru>

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    Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 18:19:26 +0300
    From: "Sergey Shilov" <shilov@email.kht.ru>
    To: "ytsejam" <ytsejam@torchsong.com>
    Subject: What's in a name?
    Message-ID: <000301c1b7c7$d1cc8120$7d893bd5@deadman>

    hi scott

    you wrote:

    Interestingly enough, and probably a very obscure comment, but I enjoy
    immensely, the fact that part of my new 'ID' is showing up in the 'From'
    line as the
    prefix: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Se=F1or Scott Mosher <ninja@mindspring.com> . What
    the hell is '=?iso-8859-1?Q?Se=F1' ? OR Scott Mosher? Damn, have I been
    relegated
    to the back of the bus, gus, or what? Anyhow, the name SHOULD read as
    follows: "Seqor Scott Mosher". I guess those special characters are not
    appreciated by
    the digest infrastructure, but since I've been getting so many requests and
    comments on what "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Se=F1" translates out to in modern english,
    I
    just had to respond.

    i wrote:
    i think that you sending mail in character set other than the standart
    english.
    your encoding is iso-8859-1 and it contains characters which cannot be
    normaly read
    using the default english encoding.
    try change the setings of your mail soft or try typing your name using only
    english characters

    the string =F1 simply says to mail agent to insert the character defined as
    Q in
    iso-8859-1 character set (=?iso-8859-1?Q?)
    the digest agent simply does not perform any actions on this code
    it thinks that it is pure text. it is the same thing that it do with html
    in mail. it does not format, decode or do something other with this code.

    bye.

    sergey shilov

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