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Morgans wrote:
Andrew, check your settings. I believe that you are posting in HTML, instead of the preferred plan text. I'm not (or at least not in the message to which you replied). The content type of the message to which you replied was: text/plain; charset=utf-8 I suspect instead that you're experiencing some difficulty with the character set, but that's pretty much a guess. My default character set is standard ascii. However, when I quote someone I'm occasionally forced to use utf-8. I've not figured out why. If there was some different message you think I posted in HTML, please give me a message ID or something else I can use to identify it. I'd be happy to check, just in case I am. But I've certainly told my newsreader to not do so. Thanks... - Andrew |
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"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message
agonline.com... [...] My default character set is standard ascii. However, when I quote someone I'm occasionally forced to use utf-8. I've not figured out why. If there was some different message you think I posted in HTML, please give me a message ID or something else I can use to identify it. I'd be happy to check, just in case I am. But I've certainly told my newsreader to not do so. He probably is under the mistaken impression that you used HTML because your post showed up in his newsreader with a different font that what he's used to. Outlook Express, for example, uses a proportional-spaced font for plain text 8-bit posts, even when you've set it to use a fixed-spaced font for plain text posts. Since HTML posts are usually in a proportional-spaced font, a person might (incorrectly) assume that any post shown in a proportional-spaced font is HTML. As for why YOUR news reader insists on using 8-bit when 7-bit would do, I don't know. You'd have to ask the KNode folks about that. I didn't see anything in the post you made in 8-bit, nor the post to which you replied (which was itself 7-bit) that would have suggested 8-bit encoding needed to be used. Pete |
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Peter Duniho wrote:
He probably is under the mistaken impression that you used HTML because your post showed up in his newsreader with a different font that what he's used to. Outlook Express, for example, uses a proportional-spaced font for plain text 8-bit posts, even when you've set it to use a fixed-spaced font for plain text posts. Ah. Thanks. I'd thought that it might have been the font, but I didn't have the background to explain how it could be the case; I know little-to-nothing about MSFT products. More, I'm sufficiently stuck in my ways that I've tried very few NNTP readers even on my platform of choice. [...] As for why YOUR news reader insists on using 8-bit when 7-bit would do, I don't know. You'd have to ask the KNode folks about that. I didn't see anything in the post you made in 8-bit, nor the post to which you replied (which was itself 7-bit) that would have suggested 8-bit encoding needed to be used. I'd always assumed that it was because I was quoting from an 8-bit message. However, this incident caused me to check and that is not the case. Puzzling. - Andrew |
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