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

On 13/03/2026 05:45, ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ wrote:
> On 3/12/2026 11:24 AM, MikeS wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> Have used that form for nntp and signature since 1998
> Html nntp, Text nntp[1], private nntp groups, private list servers, 
> private web groups, blogging...
> 
> [1] text nntp(e.g. Eternal Sept. like servers - no HTML formatting 
> composition) users are the only source where questions, criticism, 
> comments occur...but less than 5% of where 'it's' being used.
> 
> <g>Before 1998, the nomenclature was slightly longer
>    =>  W¡ñ§±¤ñ¬Ößóògîë
> 
> 
I guess the answer to my question is that you want to be different. You 
certainly succeeded as I have never seen any other email or usenet user 
emulate you. In fact when other usenet users want to refer to your 
comments in a thread they mostly type "winston". Its easier and makes 
more sense.