[TheForge] "download certain characters" (WAS: Bradley Hammers...)

Wed Dec 25 16:58:01 2002

Yes, it is from someone who set their computer to use a certain character
set that others, like myself, do not have. The system tries to download the
characters so we can see the original message. I say to cancel the download
and it prints the message in the current character set of my computer (and
most others).

Ray Baker
Frontier Forge
Olympia, WA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Spencer" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2002 12:20 PM
Subject: [TheForge] "download certain characters" (WAS: Bradley Hammers...)

>
>
> koka> How come this message initiated some attempt to download
> koka> certain characters onto my computer?
>
> ralph> Does anyone else have this problem?
>
> I dopn't quite get the notion of "download certain characters".  I do
> note that Ralph's posts have a header like:
>
> ralph>                Content-Type: text/plain;charset="iso-8859-4"
>
> while header lines like:
>
> [email protected]>   Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
>
> are more typical in email.
>
> koka appears to be using Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 to
> read mail.  Does Outhouse Excess have some setting that automatically
> tries to download a charter set spec, font file or the like from M$'s
> servers when encoutering a mail header specifying a character set not
> already configured on the local machine?
>
> If so, this could lead to a Windoes notice that "character <something
> yadda yadda> is being downloaded".
>
> - Mike
>
> --
> Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada
>
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