Re: [Bug-apl] Can anything be done about the mailer's choice of encoding?

[David Lamkins]

That's true: I am subscribed to the digest. (Reading it in Gmail and
Evolution; no difference among clients...)

I'll switch to individual delivery for now.

Thanks for the hint. :)


On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 11:30 PM, Elias Mårtenson <address@hidden> wrote:
> He seems to be using the email digests. It's possible that the digest
> feature doesn't take encoding into account. That wouldn't surprise me given
> how old and unmaintained the listserv software is.
>
> Regards,
> Elias
>
>
> On 5 February 2014 15:28, Jay Foad <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> The emails I get are full of beautifully rendered APL. Maybe it's a
>> problem with your mail client? I'm reading them in Gmail.
>>
>> Jay.
>>
>> On 5 February 2014 05:44, David B. Lamkins <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > I'd really like to follow bug-apl via email, except that the mailer
>> > doesn't seem to grok Unicode. All non-ASCII characters get replaced with
>> > a `?'.
>> >
>> > Looking at the headers, I see (excerpted):
>> >
>> > ...
>> > From: address@hidden
>> > Subject: Bug-apl Digest, Vol 6, Issue 4
>> > To: address@hidden
>> > Reply-To: address@hidden
>> > Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 12:00:16 -0500
>> > Message-ID: <address@hidden>
>> > MIME-Version: 1.0
>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>> > ...
>> >
>> > If I'm correct in assuming that Content-Type and
>> > Content-Transfer-Encoding have been set by the mailer, then that
>> > suggests that the mailer is folding Unicode to ASCII and wiping out all
>> > that beautiful APL code. :(
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>



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