[nfb-talk] Character Conversion Question

[T. Joseph Carter]

Steve,

It's part of how NFB listservs scrub messages to remove attachments,
un-HTML messages, etc.  I've been urging David for years now to either fix
it (he's not sure exactly where the problem is), or just stop trying to
strip out parts of messages entirely.

The reason not to do it is because some of us use text-based email
software like pine and mutt for UNIX systems which can't handle HTML
correctly.  However, pine has dealt with HTML email for something close to
a decade now, and I can deal with HTML in mutt much more effectively than
I can deal with a mislabeled character set.

There's also that the HTML stripper leaves behind HTML comments, which
results in lots of extra crap in messages.  Unfortunately, the way the
messages are mangled does not lend itself to undoing the mangling.

So my Christmas wish is that a new HTML defang script will replace the
HTML stripper we have now.  ;)


On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 12:11:21PM -0600, Steve Jacobson wrote:
> Mike,
> 
> I have started seeing some unusual characters in your notes and I'm trying to figure out if it is my screen reader, my mail program, or something else.  for example, 
> there is one such character just above and just below "Merry Christmas" in your note below.  Do you remember if you typed a particular character that is being 
> converted somehow?  Thanks for humoring me.