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Karl F. Larsen klarsen1 at gmail.com
Sun Jul 26 14:26:50 UTC 2009


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Siggy Brentrup wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 04:57 -0600, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>> ... ${me}:
> [big fat snip, sorry attribution line snipped inadvertantly]
> 
> Just stumbeled over another misconfiguration or bug:
> 
>>>  ... current rates are 50.00â?¬/hour
>                                 ^^^ this is a €/EURO sign
> 
> my message is wrapped in a mime-enclosure of type
> 
> | Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
> 
> making the EURO sign perfectly legal with a 3-byte code.
> 
> Karl's response is wrapped in
> 
> | Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> 
> oops, no more multibyte characters allowed.
> 
> @Karl: did you ever use the EURO sign when communicating with
>        your bank?
> 
> curiously-yours
>   Siggy
> 
	Strange as it might seem, we do not discuss any but American Dollars.
This seems odd to you, but BofA and I are in America where the American
Dollar is the money we report in. If we care about a euro we use the
current conversion from Dollars.


73 Karl


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