[Info-vax] Mail reading/processing problem, UTF-8

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 8/26/2011 7:24 AM, Henry Crun wrote:
> On 25/08/11 16:46, Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>> On 8/25/2011 5:25 AM, AEF wrote:
>>> On Aug 24, 4:57 am, hel... at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---
>>> undress to reply) wrote:
>>>> In article<j329p3$9f... at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm
>>>>
>>>> <jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com> writes:
>>>>> AEF wrote 2011-08-24 02:48:
>>>>
>>>>>> "quaint" mail
>>>>
>>>>> Googled for that but it didn't gave me anything
>>>>> reasoanble, as far as I could tell.
>>>>
>>>> I think Alan was making a joke, quaint (a, errm, quaint English word
>>>> for
>>>> old-fashioned) mail referring to paper mail.
>>>
>>> Yes, just like Jan-Erik's comment way back about checks being
>>> "quaint". (!!!)
>>>
>>> AEF
>>
>> Some of us still use checks to pay our bills. Be patient, in forty or
>> fifty
>> years most of us will be gone.
>
> To revert to English:
> I use checks quite a lot -- as in "check tyre pressure". But nobody will
> accept them as a means of payment. For that, I need cheques.
>

"Two peoples separated by a common language!"  :-)