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On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 11:11:37 +0000
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 10:30:06 on Thu, 29 Oct
2015, d remarked:
If you have Windows, you can get the acute accent with Character Map.
And if you have Linux the spell checker will add it for you.

It's nowt to do with Windows vs Linux. My Windows client has a
spell-checker that adds the acute on cliché.

Just a shame your spell checker apparently uses 8 bit ascii which can resolve
to a number of different characters depending on the code page loaded, rather
than doing it properly and using UTF8.

It's up to *your* client to decide what to do when it sees (in my
headers):

Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1;format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

I don't have a client, I have a downloader program which dumps the articles as
files for me to view later using an editor of my choice - which won't be parsing
any header lines.

Look on the bright side, at least it's not "charset=windows-1252"

There is that.

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Spud