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Date:      Wed, 1 Mar 2006 14:14:09 +1030
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, clue less <clhuless@yahoo.ca>
Subject:   Re: French accents test
Message-ID:  <20060301034409.GN23041@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060227050531.3388.qmail@web60014.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20060227043439.57855.qmail@web35202.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20060227050531.3388.qmail@web60014.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Monday, 27 February 2006 at  0:05:31 -0500, Peter wrote:
> --- clue less <clhuless@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>
>> Does the mailing list improperly strip iso-8859-1 encoding and render it
>> as unescaped UTF-8?
>>   This is a test to see:  =EF=BF=BD=EF=BF=BD=EF=BF=BD=EF=BF=BD=EF=BF=BD.
>
> I see the proper characters but when I reply in my yahoo account I get a
> question mark in a black circle for each character.  This is a problem on
> my end no doubt.
>
> Here is a test of my own: =C3=A9=C3=A0=C3=AF=C3=89

People, please use the FreeBSD-test mailing list for this sort of
thing.

In this case, though, Peter, you're using the wrong encoding.
According to your message, it was ISO 8859-1.  What you sent looks
more like UTF-8 (and is thus mangled).

Greg
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