The "unreadable formatting codes" are a mime encoding. Here is a quote from the Eudora manual:
MIME Encodings
The Internet uses SMTP to move mail around. SMTP is limited to the US-ASCII character set. This is a problem for people who speak languages other than American English and so need accented characters or non-American letters, or for people who want to use special symbols like the section mark (�).
MIME provides a way around this restriction. It offers two encodings, "quoted-printable" and "base64." These encodings use US-ASCII character codes to represent any sort of data you like, including special characters or even non-text data."Quoted-printable" is used for data that is mostly text but has special characters or very long lines. It's very simple. Quoted-printable looks just like regular text, except when a special character is used. The special character is replaced with an "=" and two more characters that represent the character code of the special character. So, a section mark (�) in quoted-printable looks like this: "=A8".
Eudora has a button on the mail window with a QP on it to activate "quoted-printable". I don't know how other email programs handle that.
Doug
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: unreadable formatting codes Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 18:06:17 -0400 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Kris Tilford,
What format codes are you using that my Mac does not like? I have a Beige G-3 with G-4 Zif.
this is a part of your message as I see it. I place them in a "Lists" folder within my Bookmarks Bar of Safari. The=20=
folder opens as a drop down menu of list archives to easily reference=20 in one click Thanks, Terrie
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