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On Monday 03 Jan 2005 23:34, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
> On Monday 03 January 2005 22:06, Anne Wilson wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > For that matter, how did you get the symbol into this
> > message, as well as the code?  If I type '&#163;' into either
> > text editor or kword I just get the literal string.
>
> </snip>
>
> In KMail I've set the charset to iso-8859-15.  

My main locale is set to use iso-8859-15 but I see that kmail is using 
US-ASCII

> But then again, I 
> don't use KMail for html.  

Kmail is set to plain text.

> My guess is, that our American friends 
> here (using US-ASCII or some Windows charset) won't be able to read
> Scandinavian characters like Ã, à and à or even the Euro-symbol â.
> Those signs will most likely produce garbage on their screens.  And
> to why you can see the escape-strings : if I'd embedded this post
> in <html><body>this message</body></html> you wouldn't.
>
I can see them fine in this message, Kaj.  I'll explore more when I get home 
tomorrow evening.

Anne
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