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• Sounds like a job for The Demorniser (Score:2)

  by ajt (2546)

  Sounds like another job for The Demoroniser [fourmilab.ch]... Or an equivalent tool.

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  -- "It's not magic, it's work..."
  • Re:Sounds like a job for The Demorniser (Score:2)

    by davorg (18)

    Actually in this case, the email isn't HTML (I don't read HTML email), it's plain text.
    
    It's probably a programmer somewhere who thinks that iso-8859-1 and Windows-1252 are the same thing.
    
    • Re:Sounds like a job for The Demorniser (Score:2)

      by ajt (2546)

      Fair point. You can probably assume that the main problem is when Windows sends out a Windows encoding say cp-1252, but lies and calls is iso-8859-1.

      One possible solution is to scan any iso-8859-1 files, looking for any diagnostic control-code points (Demoroniser has some suggestions for that), and then ask a recoding program convert this to a civilised scheme, or correctly set the Content-Type.

      I have to deal with this all the time, users think that Windows is "correct", then the output a document, inco

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      -- "It's not magic, it's work..."
    • Re:Sounds like a job for The Demorniser (Score:2)

      by pudge (1)

      It's probably a programmer somewhere who thinks that iso-8859-1 and Windows-1252 are the same thing.
      
      It's probably some programmer somewhere who has no idea what charsets are, or didn't bother caring enough to check the output, and just used someone else's code (either an existing library or copy/paste).
      • Re:Sounds like a job for The Demorniser (Score:2)

        by davorg (18)

        You're probably right. And if they did check the output then it was probably in something like Outlook which makes the same broken assumptions.