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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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