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|    Marian to Carlos E.R.    |
|    Re: Discussion: How to set up your mobil    |
|    11 Dec 25 09:19:38    |
      XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.mobile.android, misc.phone.mobile.iphone       From: marianjones@helpfulpeople.com              Carlos E.R. wrote:       >> �o�O�@�Өϥ� Big5 �s�X�����հT���C<---chinese       characters are here       >       > Unreadable, because your charset headers are random and faked, they do       > not correspond to the contents of the text. This is a bug in your       > scripts, they should send the charset headers that are true and       > correspond to your actual text encoding. Otherwise, our readers will try       > to display your posts and fail to do the correct rendering.              Hi Carlos,              Thanks for letting me know as I never understood charsets in headers.        "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8       "              Looking it up, apparently typically the posting client (newsreader)       sets the charset in the outgoing header, so it's up to me to set it.              When I type a message, I only use ASCII code points 0x20 through 0x7E       (the 95 printable keyboard characters); so it's not usually an issue.              So that's why 99.9% of my posts don't have any charset issues.              The problem comes when I paste into the article from elsewhere.       Often there are characters in that pasted text which are not ASCII.              What I can do is scrub each message via the XML substitution below.                                               |
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