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[Adam Bernstein <address@concealed>]

Okay, here's another one I'm looking for help with, just trying to diagnose 
it: Is anyone else seeing weird character set or encoding issues with Sympa 
(it appeared for us after upgrade from 5.1.2 to 5.3.4), where spaces or 
tabs or possibly quotes/dashes/etc. are getting turned into weird 
high-value ASCII characters after distribution?  It looks like it's 
happening sometimes when using the Post page via the Web, and sometimes 
from email clients.  I haven't yet been able to gather details from any of 
the users that have seen this about exactly how they're composing or 
reading mail, and there may be a couple of different related symptoms.

Ie. this is what one user saw in their email client (and I wonder how it's 
all going to come through on this list):

> Julie Payne wrote:
>
> Dear Maryam,
>
> Â Â The whole list has been privy to this conversation, as they are
> on the cc’s.
>
> Â Â I will make sure that Annie has it in her calendar, as will I.
>
> Â Â Best,
>
> Â Â Â Julie

but in the archive, all those bad characters are simply spaces, as they 
should be.

For another user, this is what appears both in the archive and in their 
email client:

> Do you want a home-based job with eHomemakers? We are looking for an 
Assistant Web Editor, Newsletter Editor and Writers.

So is anybody else seeing that kind of thing, and do you have a better 
handle than I do on exactly what's happening?  Otherwise I guess I'll keep 
trying to gather data to get to a point where I can report a bug.

Or can someone take a guess, like is this a character set thing or an 
encoding thing, or both?

      adam