XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, misc.phone.mobile.iphone, alt.internet.wireless   
   From: marianjones@helpfulpeople.com   
      
   Andy Burns wrote:   
   >> the post you said was in   
   >> Chinese fonts was no different, on my side, than any other post from me.   
   >   
   > Presumably you have a collection of posts which you "harvest" headers   
   > from?  Maybe remove any posts with charset="big5" or charset="koi8" in   
   > the headers from the collection ...   
      
   Hi Andy,   
      
   I looked at my dictionaries and those words NEVER appear in them.   
      
   That makes sense since I didn't change anything for the one post that you   
   noticed the Chinese fonts. You have to believe me on that. I didn't do it.   
      
   So you're really looking in the wrong place for the problem.   
   Almost certainly the problem is either how my newsserver forwards things on   
   my side, or how your newsserver/newsreader receives things on your side.   
      
   I think what must have happened is:   
    a. I copied and pasted text that contained funky characters.   
    b. Somehow, your newsreader saw that as a Chinese character set.   
      
   I do not understand how fonts propagate from my telnet session to my news   
   server to your news server to your newsreader though.   
      
   But something in *that* coding and decoding caused the Chinese fonts on   
   your side since I have no header with those words (and you can prove it by   
   looking at the header of that particular post, for example).   
      
   One fact we can check is to ask if ANYONE ELSE saw Chinese fonts?   
      
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