In article ,
James Brown writes:
In message , John Hall
writes
In article ,
Steve Loft writes:
John Hall wrote:

Presumably it is encoded in Windows-1256, whereas Turnpike expects
subject lines to be in "vanilla" text.

But Turnpike does understand RFC2047, but apparently not Windows-1256.
My reply uses RFC2047, but ISO-8859-1 encoding - I assume that displays
correctly in Turnpike?

It does.

I'm also experiencing the same problem - another Turnpike user. Before
reporting it to the Turnpike group - is it definitively the Windows
1256 encoding that is causing the problem? Turnpike is not actively
being developed except for a possible fix for Vista users - whoever
that person might be ;-)) so I can't see a fix being forthcoming.

I think this has already been reported on demon.ip.support.turnpike, at
least for the same problem with emails. TP is supposed to be compatible
with the RFCs, which I believe don't mention the possibility of encoding
headers in Windows 1256.

However it is perhaps worth noting that our of millions of messages I
get from a variety of newsgroups, this is strangely the only poster who
causes a problem. Very strange.

Presumably Colin needs to do so if he is to include the degree symbol in
subject lines.
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John Hall
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particularly from a relative, a friend,
an acquaintance, or a stranger." Franklin P Jones