LuKreme wrote:
On 29-Jan-2010, at 20:11, Tim Gray wrote:
On Fri 29, Jan'10 at 9:20 PM -0500, John C. Welch wrote:
Sorry, you¹ll have to give me few minutes. Your message came in
as base 64 (which I¹m beginning to think is possibly the list
serve¹s fault) and I have to convert it to HTML, format it so
it¹s legible, then return it to plain text, so no one cries.
I honestly don't understand what John was trying to do that required
somehow converting it to HTML, formatting it, and converting back to
plain text again. I'm not even sure how such a method would work, but
it's not the right way to deal with it. See below for a simpler
alternative.
Not trying to stir anything up, but all the clients I checked his
email in had no problems with his message in base64. Is anyone
else having these problems? Just curious, since this is a list
about email clients, and this is the kind of thing a client will
have to handle.
The issue is that it IS in base64.
I don't know why it arrived encoded as base64 because, AFAICT, my mail
client didn't encode it like that. It must be the mailing list server
doing it for some reason, since it's appending the mailing list info to
the end of all mails before encoding and distributing them.
But no-one seems to be able to explain *why* that is an issue? Unless
some people have broken mail clients that aren't decoding it properly,
or unless some people trying to read their mail by viewing the message
source, it shouldn't matter at all.
But, in case anyone's client is mistakenly rendering the base64, the
simple way to decode it enter this into your browser's address bar (any
browser except IE should work), appending the entire base64 encoded
string and setting the charset to whatever the mail was sent as:
data:text/plain;charset=UTF-8;base64,
Alternatively, use a simple online tool.
http://www.google.com/search?q=base64+decoder
--
Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software
http://lachy.id.au/
http://www.opera.com/
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