Decoding in XXI Cent

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>In a nutshell, the information about what character set / encoding a
>message is in is contained in one of the message headers. Now the
>problem arises where to put the information about the charset of message
>headers themselves: when the mail application reads the headers, it
>doesn't yet have this information at its disposal. So this ugly clutch
>is what people came up with.
>
>Spam filtering on this information has been tried, but I've usually been
>very angry with it. For a short while messages in English had a much
>larger probability to land in my spam folder than those I received in
>French or German.
>
>Chris Waigl
>
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Thanks.  I should have thought of that.  I have long since told Eudora to
deliver anything containing this phrase in any header to Trash, so it's not
a problem, just a bit of idle curiosity..
AM

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