In a message to Bill Grimsley 
rowan crowe  wrote:

 BG> Can you try replying to this message, with the
"hardquote" option both
 BG> on and off, and see what happens to Denise's ascii bear which I have
 BG> imported?

 rc> ..

 BG>     _ _
 BG>   { . . }
 BG>    ( Y )
 BG> __()_ _()__
 BG> __|__|__|__|
 BG> _|__|__|__|_
 BG> __|__|__|__|

 rc>     Hey, what's going on, normally GoldED mangles stuff like 
 rc> this too. Strange. 

Maybe it's ASCII character 255 ? :-)

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