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Re: but you don\u2019t know if you don\u2019t ask


From: Sharon Kimble
Subject: Re: but you don\u2019t know if you don\u2019t ask
Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 12:19:03 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.90 (gnu/linux)

David Hume <David.Hume@example.com> writes:

> Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>
>>
>> Someone who knows more about this than I will correct me, but
>> I'd guess that you need to try another font, which will display
>> that Unicode char.
>>
>
> Eight-bit characters should not be posted in headers. They should be
> ascii encoded.
>
> so this:
>
> ”This is in quotes”
>
> Would be encoded like this:
>
> =?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=9DThis?= is in =?utf-8?Q?quotes=E2=80=9D?=
>
> Faulty news client at the poster's end.
>
Cobblers! I posted the heading like that because it is descriptive
of what I'm seeing. It doesn't matter wherever I paste that line in
emacs, it always comes out like that, and I've learnt how to work
around it, but I'm really looking for a solution, not a band-aid!
There is nothing wrong with gnus at this end, its working just fine!

Sharon.
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