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Ben Parker <[log in to unmask]>
Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:00:17 -0600
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On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:44:13 -0400, "Demeny, Dave"
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:


>X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5

Well, you are using an older version of Exchange/Outlook that may not encode
characters correctly.  I don't know what mail client the other person is
using.  And also very interesting is your message to the list is in a very
strange charset (Japanese?) for plain-text English:

>Content-Type: text/plain;
>	charset="iso-2022-jp"
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

And again it comes back to encoding.  Micrsoft is well known for trying to
'prettify' messages by replacing plain old 'dash' with 'em dash', plain quotes
"" with 'curly quotes' “”, etc.  But, these are all 8bit characters and email
is only 7bit safe, so how are the characters actually rendered in the html
message?  As the 8bit char ­ ?  as a defined HTML character  &#151; ?  As the
Quoted-Printable-encoded version of the 8bit char  =AD ?

If you (or your mail client) put an 8bit character in a message that you (or
your mail client) declares 
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
then this is a big mistake and may lead to unpredictable results.

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