On Oct 27, 2004, at 12:59 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
In message BAY13-DAV17WdgjTGgf0000ed7f@hotmail.com you wrote:
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Message unreadable, ignored. Sorry.
Not sure how one would do this if one is Chinese and using hotmail for email... In the 21st century one might suggest that if a base64-encoded message in a non-western character set is unreadable, the problem is on the receiving side not the sending side.
C