stupid anthrax q: would microwaving your snail mail help?
Declan McCullagh
declan at well.com
Sat Oct 20 09:13:59 PDT 2001
Dare I say it? Another reason to use just 7-bit ASCII.
I'm not particularly religious on this issue, but for text-based
discussions like the ones we have here, anything else just doesn't
seem necessary, and can lead to strange results like what we just saw.
-Declan
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 04:13:19PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> Above mistranslates ISO-8859-1 encoded \260 (octal), the degree sign, as
> a zero.
>
> Temperatures should read 220 F, 270 F, and 280 F, not thousands of
> degrees.
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