> Help then somebody. Why do some communications have what appears to be a code
> for certain letters e.g. =94 etc. and why am I getting salary and other
> sterling amounts with a prefix A instead of # or stg, followed by a figure
> which is clearly not the correct one - usually 10 times more?? This has not
> happened before - is it my end or the sender's?
Put simply, the person who sent the message had MIME (Multi-purpose
Internet Mail Extensions) enabled on their mailer. This turns codes
that can't normally be transmitted by email into a sequence of codes
that can. For instance, the pound sign is converted to =A3. So a
figure of 30 preceeded by a pound sign will appear as =A330 on a
mailer that is unaware of MIME. If the person who receives the mail
is using a MIME enabled mailer they will simply see a pound sign,
followed by the number 30.
For this reason I never enable MIME in my Pegasus mailer when
contributing to a mailing list, as I know there are a lot of people
using older mail packages. Pegasus is quite clever and converts all
pound signs to the letters stlg before sending a non-MIME mail
message. However, even with MIME disabled for sending messages it
will automatically detect a MIME message and decode it accordingly. A
lot of mainframe mailing packages won't even let you type characters
corresponding to codes above 127.
Regards
Paul Dilley, Technical Manager
Computer Centre for People with Disabilities, University of Westminster
** The London & South East Regional Access Centre **
Tel: +44 171 911 5000 Fax: +44 171 911 5162 http://www.wmin.ac.uk/ccpd/
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