Firefox/Mozilla exploit semi-permanenet fix

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 13:20, David Bandel wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 08:05:16 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer <roger at opq.se> wrote:
>
> > > You just need to learn your keyboard's modifiers (which may or may not
> > > be enabled). You misht have a ~ character on a key. On mine, I can press
> > > that once (nothing prints), followed by a normal n, and I get ??. In X, I
> > > think these are called compose keys. Same with the ^, `, ?? and ??
> > > modifiers. I do not recall which ones, if any, are on a US keyboard. But
> > > I do know that you can define keys to be compose keys. Maybe it is a
> > > different X keymap.
> >
> > Yes.  I need the ??, so my XF86Config-4 has a keymap called us_intl
> > rather than the usual us keymap.
>
> David,
>
> When this message came back from you, the characters in question were
> garbled. When replies come form others, this is not the case. I see that
> my posts contain:
>
> 	Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> in the headers. Your envelope around that in the reply contains
>
> 	Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>
> I would have thought that my e-mailer (evolution) would have dealt with
> your wrapper (quoted-printable), and then used the nested
> charset=ISO-8859-1 for the text I wrote.
>
> Maybe the interleaving of your reply with my text confused the issue?
>
> How odd. Anyone else see odd characters (not the original I sent) in
> David's reply? Also, David's ? (an 'n with a tilde in case there is more
> of this) came as something totally different.
>
> I do not think the mailing list is doing this as my posts with these
> characters look correct when I receive them back from the mailing list.
> It is only David's post.
>
> All not really an issue. More of a curiosity.

Its your mail client.  The tilde ~ looked fine in the original from David,
however is now munged in your reply.

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