[SLUG] Irritating code instead of normal characters

[Al Girling]

Hi folks,

I've received this message from the RYA about a pricing query I have.
I've inserted the whole message including headers in the hope that
someone can help to explain way I see =A315 instead of what is possibly
£15.  That's a guess BTW.  Is the =A315 ASCII code or can anyone give me
a clue so I can find out what prices have been quoted.

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Subject: RE: Dinghy and Keelboat Certification
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Dear Al,

To have a certificate reissued you need to send the original =
certificate, a fee of either =A315 if you are a RYA member or =A320 for =
non-members, and a covering letter stating your name and address and the =
boats sail number.

Please send to:
Technical Unit
RYA House
Ensign Way=20
Hamble
Southampton
SO31 4YA

Regards,

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I've removed details of mail-to and mail-from addresses to help prevent
abuse from SPAM when this is available in the archives.

I thought it might be something to do with the charset given for the
message, but all I can find involving charset is this;

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        charset="iso-8859-1"

Which (I think) is the charset of my message to the RYA.
	
Hmmm!  I've tried something for the first time.  Vim has the ability to
determine code for a given character by placing the cursor over the
character in question and keying 'ga'.  This is what I see when I do
this with a £ symbol;

"<£>  <|#>  <M-#>  163,  Hex a3,  Octal 243"

This I assume means I'm seeing Hex code for a £.  So the prices are £15
and £20 respectively.

If I'm correct with this, all I need to do now is work out why I'm
seeing hex code instead of the correct symbols! :(

Sorry for all the rambling and waffling, but there's been nowt happening
on the list for a while. :)

Toodle pip,

Al
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Al Girling
Linux User: #290080            <http://counter.li.org>
Scarborough Linux User Group   <http://www.scarborough.lug.org.uk>