From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Invalid characters, or something else?
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 17:20:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d3r9r7p2.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3ocathefe.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sun, 17 Oct 2010 02:05:09 +0200")
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Some Gwene groups have some characters that can't be parsed as utf-8 (or
> something). It's usually dash characters or the like.
> Like this:
> ---
> other easy activitiestalking, chewing gumand suggest
> ---
> Is that valid? If not, what's the likely explanation where it's coming
> from?
They're from Windows-1252 (or 1250). Octal 227 is a dash in that charset.
Microsoft users tend to send unlabelled Windows code pages.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252
--
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-17 0:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-17 0:05 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-17 0:20 ` Russ Allbery [this message]
2010-10-17 13:07 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-17 13:17 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-17 13:22 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-17 13:34 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-17 17:57 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-17 21:34 ` James Cloos
2010-10-17 21:33 ` James Cloos
2010-10-18 6:11 ` Reiner Steib
2010-10-18 18:32 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-17 21:30 ` Kevin Ryde
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