Dare I say it? Another reason to use just 7-bit ASCII. I'm not particularly religious on this issue, but for text-based discussions like the ones we have here, anything else just doesn't seem necessary, and can lead to strange results like what we just saw.
-Declan On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 04:13:19PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Above mistranslates ISO-8859-1 encoded \260 (octal), the degree sign, as > a zero. > > Temperatures should read 220 F, 270 F, and 280 F, not thousands of > degrees.