AW: [Zope-Coders] AW: [ZC] 536/ 2 Reject "Object titles such as B +600-1 cause error s"

[Isokangas, Erik HTC/DE/FRA]

Thanks Tim, you hit the nail on the head.  The solution was to switch =
off
the automatic code selection option in IE.

Damn these non-US computers ;-)

Erik.

> -----Urspr=FCngliche Nachricht-----
> Von:	Tim Peters [SMTP:tim@zope.com]
> Gesendet am:	Monday, 26 August 2002 11:46 PM
> An:	Ken Manheimer; Isokangas, Erik  HTC/DE/FRA
> Cc:	'Collector: Zope Bugs, Features, and Patches ...'; Caseman; =
Brian;
> chrism
> Betreff:	RE: [Zope-Coders] AW: [ZC] 536/ 2 Reject "Object titles such
> as B+600-1 cause error s"
>=20
> [Ken Manheimer, viewing
>     <http://collector.zope.org/Zope/536/collector_issue_contents>
> ]
> > One followup - i was unable to reproduce the problems viewing the
> > collector issue with either Moz 1.0 or IE 5.5, and i noticed a =
different
> > character set in the image erik had included, so suspect that the
> browser
> > and/or browser's encoding settings are key here.
>=20
> I had no problems with IE6 either.  However, if I forced IE's =
encoding to
> UTF-7, I got a screen that looked very much like the JPEG Erik =
attached.
>=20
> Since "+" is a "shift into bizarro mode" <wink> character in UTF-7, =
and
> "-"
> one way to get out of that mode, it's not surprising that B+600-1 =
would
> get
> displayed as
>=20
>     B gibberish 1
>=20
> in UTF-7.  See RFC 1642 for details.