Re: Incorrect characters

[Joel Merrick <joel () servicestyle com>]

On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 03:50 +1100, Paul wrote:
> Hi list, 
> Firstly, I sent an email to a client quoting some prices on the server
> that we use for our own website and it arrived with the (correctly)
> typed £ sign as a capital 'L' .

Dunno if it's purely coincidental, but 'L' was the old way of writing £

Doubt this helps with character sets though ;)

> I then sent a test email to myself from my ISP account to my address
> on this same (questionable) server and it was perfect. To be sure, I
> repeated this exercise the opposite way round (own server to ISP a/c)
> again perfect! I phoned my ISP help boys who are usually mega reliable
> and they assured me they had never experienced this before. So - has
> anyone any ideas on this, I can only assume that the problem lies with
> the recipient's ISP's web server - I do not know the os.
>  
> Secondly, if characters are being mis-read by a machine on any send
> path does such an error constitute a risk?
>  
> Thirdly, if so, what steps should be taken?
>  
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