Hi Folks,
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 14:36:11 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 02:51:47 -0500 (EST), Thomas Mueller wrote:
>> to Sam Ewalt: I noticed one line with weird characters in one of your
> messages
>> in this thread and am curious how those weird characters got there. Here is
>> the excerpt, quoted without adding any line-prefix character:
>> éì‹-ça
>> (end of quote, end of message)
> I don't know how they got there or what they mean. It happens on
> occasion when I am composing mail replies with the Arachne editor.
It happens to me as well, sometimes, with A171dev.
> Maybe one of the gurus know where they come from.
They always seem to be ASCII characters, above and below the normal
writing characters i.e. below ASCII 20 and above ASCII 128. This is the
area of binary characters I guess, maybe left-overs from incomplete
hard-disk deletions accidentally caught up in disk-writes.
Regards,
Ron
Ron Clarke
http://homepages.valylink.net.au/~ausreg/index.html
http://tadpole.aus.as
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