From: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] name that character set
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:03:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee9e417a0501061303369c86c7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <af8195e064533fdfc3f7dd7ad403fb1e@quintile.net>
0xc2 0x80 is the utf encoding of Runeerror.
some plan9 tool has parsed whatever used to
be there as utf, but since it was invalid utf,
the tool replaced it with Runeerror. try looking
at the raw mbox file, using /mail/fs/mbox/1/raw
or not using upas/fs at all.
russ
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 20:01:32 0000, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
> Anyone know which character set the hex codes 0xc2 0x80
> reprisent the UK currency symbol £?
>
> I get these in emails with headers:
>
> Content-Type: text/plain
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> X-Mailer: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000
> Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message
>
> It cannot be unicode as that uses 0x00a3 and anyway the
> remainder of the mesage is in what looks like ASCII.
> I played with tcs(1) but couldn't get a sensible
> translation.
>
> Where do I look?
>
> -Steve
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-06 21:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-06 20:01 Steve Simon
2005-01-06 20:13 ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-01-06 20:41 ` boyd, rounin
2005-01-06 21:03 ` Russ Cox [this message]
2005-01-06 21:34 ` Rob Pike
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