From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   David Carson  wrote:   
      
   >My newsreader hated that emdash or whatever that non-compliant punctuation   
   >in the subject line was.   
      
   You made me look.   
      
   Thank you for performing the ASCII substitution on Subject, but the   
   non-ASCII characters remained in the quoted text in the body including   
   open and close single and double quotes which don't belong in plain text   
   communication.   
      
   Yes, it was em dash.   
      
   On Subject, the character was encoded. While encoded non-ASCII   
   characters on Subject and other headers are annoying, they are standards   
   compliant. Yes, newsreaders may indeed choke because the assumption the   
   newsreader makes about encoding must match the author's encoding, and   
   that doesn't always happen. ASCII means universal communication.   
      
   When I'm not being lazy in followup, I decode.   
      
   https://dogmamix.com/MimeHeadersDecoder/   
      
   Then I perform ASCII substitution.   
      
   https://dan.hersam.com/tools/smart-quotes.php   
      
   If I quote from the precursor article or from a Web article, I perform   
   the ASCII substitution. If there is no need to use a non-ASCII   
   character, I post ASCII only.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)