Re: [Bug-apl] Can anything be done about the mailer's choice of encoding?

[Jay Foad]

The emails I get are full of beautifully rendered APL. Maybe it's a
problem with your mail client? I'm reading them in Gmail.

Jay.

On 5 February 2014 05:44, David B. Lamkins <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'd really like to follow bug-apl via email, except that the mailer
> doesn't seem to grok Unicode. All non-ASCII characters get replaced with
> a `?'.
>
> Looking at the headers, I see (excerpted):
>
> ...
> From: address@hidden
> Subject: Bug-apl Digest, Vol 6, Issue 4
> To: address@hidden
> Reply-To: address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 12:00:16 -0500
> Message-ID: <address@hidden>
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> ...
>
> If I'm correct in assuming that Content-Type and
> Content-Transfer-Encoding have been set by the mailer, then that
> suggests that the mailer is folding Unicode to ASCII and wiping out all
> that beautiful APL code. :(
>
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