[Coco] Re: Updated accurate memory map [forward]

[KnudsenMJ at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/9/04 7:35:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time, james at skwirl.ca 
writes:

> I think it must be Unicode encoding for the left-apostrophe. And the 
>  mailer didn't set MIME headers for it to tell other mail software that 
>  it's Unicode encoded.

Here's an interesting question:  If you actually see all the MIME-functions 
listed in your received email text, does that mean that your mailer has failed 
to recognize and act on them?  I often get emails with all those MIME headers 
in them visible, and I'm wondering if they shouldn't be hidden whenever the 
mail reader does recognize them?

This would be like the messages we all see with some HTML codes scattered 
thru it (that gawdawful nbsp and DIV statements mostly), but not enough HTML 
headers to trigger the mail reader into displaying the HTML as such.

I figure that when I get messages from Vienna and Paris with perfectly 
rendered characters, that there was some MIME or similar header that my mailer 
intercepted and acted on, and doesn't show me.

Sorry I don't recall whether the message with the messy characters had 
visible MIME headers in it or not.  I always blamed those on outdated UNIX mailers 
or Macs, but who knows?

Also, why are some keyboards generating a "left apostrophe?"  We already 
have, in ASCII, the back-tick ( ` ) for programmers who need balanced single 
quotes.
 --Mike K.