Re: charset enquiry

On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Lloyd G. Rasmussen wrote:

> If you set Lynx up properly, it can convert to ISO-8859-1 or code page 437
> or whatever you want.  But the original document should have its encoding
> reported as it is and not changed by the author unless the author also
> changes the offending characters to reflect the newly-declared character
> encoding.  

don't have the offending ??? in Lynx but in my e-mail (PINE) and it was
never enough to be bothersome, just was curious as to how they got there

Bob

> 
> At 10:12 AM 1/3/02 -0500, you wrote:
> >On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Chris Croome wrote:
> >
> >> For example browsers such as Netscape 4 on Linux replaces MS 'smart
> >> quotes' with question marks.
> >
> >
> >I'll be danged,  after all this time finally found out where those pesky
> >??? were coming from!
> >
> >Bob
> 
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