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

On 12/03/2026 07:08, ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
I also see your name as ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ (in Betterbird). It doesn't bother me 
unduly but it has puzzled me for a while. May I ask what you are doing 
and why not simply use winston as in your email address?