Lawson,
> That looks to me like MIME Content-Type: text/plain;
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable, as seen by an MUA that
> is either not MIME-aware, or is trying to deal with mail that has
> been handled by an MTA that is not MIME aware and has stripped the
> MIME mail headers out. I can't believe emacs can't be made to
> handle MIME (though
Well, getting emacs to understand MIME is possible, but I've not
bothered because it gets thrown by the multipart messages in which
MIME is often embedded. Normally I just take a multipart mail file
containing MIME and run unmime on it to extract the MIME'd content.
Based on what you say, I suspect the problem is that emacs could not
respond to the MIME part of this message, and for some obscure reason
converted the MIME characters to hex rather than simply display the
MIME code literally, which it usually does. Indeed, I kept another
message as a sample of hex characters, and I see that it is a MIME or
a HTML part of a message.
I therefore tried to run un-MIME on this other file, and sure enough,
out poped an intelligible html file. I no longer have the entire
original file that caused me to write, but I suspect that I could
simply run un-MIME on it to extract its content. If so, that solves
part of my problem.
Let me interject in connection with this topic that I get messages or
documents written with Windows applications having some hex code
characters embedded. For example, =E8 is è, or =20 is new
paragraph. These are annoying, but usually I just strip them or do a
conversion. Again, I see this in emacs. If I left those characters
alone in HTML files, I wonder if browsers would automatically convert
them. I'll have to experiment and see.
> It looks like garbled Korean or something. Where did you get this?
> There was an email address collector subscribed to linux-x11 about a
> year ago that sent out stuff like this if you wrote to it.
No, I sometimes get docs written in Chinese or Japanese, and usually
emacs handles them quite nicely, but don't know Korean and wouldn't
know if Korean were garbled or not.
Thanks for the help. At least it opened up some perspectives.
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