-={ vendredi, avril 03 2015, 18:10:08 -0700 }=-

Hey mark!

 ml> it was seen here as the little "sun" sign

Offhand that sounds like the currency sign.  If you can view utf8 then this is
what happens here depending on the -f switch in iconv;

echo -e "\xa4" | iconv -f latin1 -t utf8 = ¤
echo -e "\xa4" | iconv -f latin9 -t utf8 = €
echo -e "\xa4" | iconv -f cp437 -t utf8  = ñ

The above is a cheat of inputting just the character in question as opposed to
inputting the entire message text from the original message.  Either way I get
the exact same output for the utf8 characters as shown above.

Life is good,
Maurice

... Don't cry for me I have vi.
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