Noob question

I've been working with SQL Server for a few years now, but I'm new to this
particular newsgroup (heh, to think I pretty much just used Usenet for
gaming discussions in the past). I hope to do my part to contribute as I
pick up a ton of useful information.
Anyway, I've noticed a couple of people here with similarly cryptic aliases
such as "examnotes". Is there some significance to these
names? Do they have something to do with some sort of text encoding scheme
or something?
Just curious.
Rumble
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> I've been working with SQL Server for a few years now, but I'm new to this
> particular newsgroup (heh, to think I pretty much just used Usenet for
> gaming discussions in the past). I hope to do my part to contribute as I
> pick up a ton of useful information.
> Anyway, I've noticed a couple of people here with similarly cryptic
aliases
> such as "examnotes". Is there some significance to these
> names? Do they have something to do with some sort of text encoding scheme
> or something?
> Just curious.
> --
> Rumble
> "Write something worth reading, or do something worth writing."
> -- Benjamin Franklin|||On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 18:49:17 GMT, Rumbledor wrote:

>I've been working with SQL Server for a few years now, but I'm new to this
>particular newsgroup (heh, to think I pretty much just used Usenet for
>gaming discussions in the past). I hope to do my part to contribute as I
>pick up a ton of useful information.
>Anyway, I've noticed a couple of people here with similarly cryptic aliases
>such as "examnotes". Is there some significance to these
>names? Do they have something to do with some sort of text encoding scheme
>or something?
Hi Rumbledor,
I think that your newsreader isn't properly formatting some encoded
string. The first characters of the string you quote are =?Utf-8. UTF-8
is one of the unicode encoding schemes. So I guess that someone posted a
message with the name in UTF-8, but your newsreader didn't recognise it
as such.
FWIW, I've never seen names like that in this group, so either I missed
those messages (quite unlikely), or my news reader does format the UTF-8
encoded names correctly (quite likely).
More information on UTF-8: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8
Best, Hugo
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