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Re: We're losing the war on climate change

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Steven M. O'Neill <steveo@panix.com> wrote:

> Sn!pe <snipeco.2@gmail.com> wrote:
> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> [...]
> >^?     My pet rock Gordon just is. 
> 
> My newsreader (a modified trn 4) did not like your ?char
> there, rendering it as a question mark, possibly because of the
> aforementioned Content-Type header.
> 
> Hm. But https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1 says that
> char is in 8859-1. Sigh, good old trn.
> 
> Why I am I even posting then? I will meditate on this question
> and get back to you.
> 
> -smo (curious to see if the UTF-8 header helps
>       anyway -- ooh, that's a reason right there!)
>

Your newsreader barfed on Latin capital I with diaresis? 
I'm surprised, I'll be interested to read your conclusions. 

If MacSOUP should prove to be at fault, alas the chances of 
getting it patched are vanishingly small.  Now obsolescent, it 
will stop working altogether when MacOS becomes 64 bit only. 

-- 
^Ï^     My pet rock Gordon just is. 
 

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Re: We're losing the war on climate change steveo@panix.com (Steven M. O'Neill) - 2019-05-01 13:36 +0000
  Re: We're losing the war on climate change snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2019-05-01 19:01 +0100

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