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Re: Can I ask??

 

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Roman Yepishev <roman.yepishev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 13:04 +0000, John Matthews wrote:
>> Is it just me, or are we all seeing the Kanji characters in the subject
>> line of some messages?
> If you are talking about the From header, then yes, probably the
> characters you see after his name have something to do with the name
> itself:
>                              From:
> Simon Wiles 魏希明

It is the chinese name of the sender.

> <simonjwiles@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>> Chinese characters worry me slightly, usually
>> they are associated with suspect sites.
> I don't think you can identify something as malicious just because it
> contains some sort of non-latin characters. I could write my name in
> Cyrillic and, probably, that would be suspicious as well :)
>> I am surprised my ubuntu picked
>> them up, I didnt realise it could view them.
> Yup, the power of Unicode is all over the place.
>
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> Roman Yepishev <roman.yepishev@xxxxxxxxx>
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