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From: "Dennis & Donna Francis" <>
Subject: Re: [Civil-War-Irish] Re: CIVIL-WAR-IRISH-D Digest V04 #41
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 12:44:46 -0400
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> I was wondering why the newletter contains so many meaningless
characters...
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Has to do with character sets and the way computers handle them from the
sender through the server and on to the recipient. It's the main reason why
Irish language email lists used slashes instead of accents to display long
vowels.

This gives a pretty good explanation:
http://mailformat.dan.info/body/charsets.html

I've noticed the problem arises especially on digests - the examples you
gave came out fine on the individual messages I received, while the digest I
get on a web-based mail had the same gobbley-gook.

Dennis

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