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Fixing broken ISO-8859-1 e-mail

1999-07-01 06:00:08
Hello folks,

        I often get e-mail that states that it is iso-8859-1 and that
the Content-Transfer-Encoding is 8bit.  Still, certain special
characters show up as unknown 8-bit codes.  It seems to happen only if
the originating machine was a PC.  Is there a filter available that
can correct this?  For an example, an e-mail with the following
headers:

X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3

produces iso-8859-1 text with properly accented letters but I find the
following codes (the code is in the second column - and is unreadable
for me):

        \226    ? 
        \205    ?

This list is non-exhaustive!

Thanks!

        --Ralph

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