Peter Kirk wrote:
> On 29/07/2003 13:03, Karljürgen Feuerherm wrote: > > >>Otherwise we > >>would write Karlj<fronted>u</fronted>rgen or the like. > >> > >> > > > >Actually, that would have been preferable to the way some of my official id > >actually appears.... :( > And probably to what some software does with it. One of your recent > messages to this list came with the following line in its source: > > From: =?8859_1?B?S2FybGr8cmdlbg==?= Feuerherm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > and Mozilla renders that version of your first name as a Chinese character, 翽! I wonder whether it is a positive character or a negative one.... Seriously, even simple things seem to still be a problem. When I use Hotmail directly (which I try to avoid now except when away from home) it replaces the ü in my name with a 1/4 symbol.... One would think that ü is sufficiently simple not to be mucked up in today's day and age, but no.... K
