Re: Question: Do Winston's headers cause charset issues for anyone else?

On 3/11/2026 5:32 PM, Maria Sophia wrote:
> Question:
> Do Winston's headers cause charset issues for anyone else?
> Or just me?
> 
> I am trying to understand something about how different newsreaders handle
> malformed headers because my home-grown "newsreader" has "problems" when
> responding to Winston's posts due to the way he formats his "FROM" header.
>   From: ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ <[email protected]>
> 
> That line apparently contains non-ASCII characters in the display name:
>   ¡ (U+00A1)
>   ñ (U+00F1)
>   § (U+00A7)
>   ± (U+00B1)
>   ¤ (U+00A4)
>   another ñ (U+00F1)

w = standard lower case w keystroke
¡ = Alt 0161
ñ = Alt 0241
§ = Alt 0167  or § = Alt 21
± = Alt 0177
¤ = Alt 0164
ñ = Alt 0241

All from one or more fonts available in Character Map.
  - I've come across other folks that use some available character codes 
that appear blank - just copy the code and paste into a field to meet 
the '*' required character entry.


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