YTSEJAM Digest 6115 Today's Topics: 1) What's in a name? by "Sergey Shilov" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 18:19:26 +0300 From: "Sergey Shilov" To: "ytsejam" 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 . 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 ------------------------------ End of YTSEJAM Digest 6115 ************************** === Contributions to ytsejam: ytsejam@torchsong.com === === Send requests to: ytsejam-request@torchsong.com === === Brought by the ghost of ytsejam@arastar.coms past === === Reach the owner of this list at: ytsejam-owner@torchsong.com ===