On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > (1) What causes =20, =B7, =FA etc. to appear at the end of lines, start of
> > lines, or after an indent at the start of a line?...
>
> I see this same sort of jizz all of the time in mail sent to me from Windoze
> machines.
>
> I asked someone knowlegable about such systems about this once.
>
> But seriously, what I was told is that this extra gunk is in fact some sort
> of bizzare Microsoft goo, and that if you are _viewing_ messages that have
> this extra goo stuck onto them from a Windoze machine, you won't even see
> this ugly extra gunk.
It may be that some windows software is particularly bad about this, but
what you're really seeing is an artifact of using 8-bit ASCII instead of
7-bit ASCII. Those are "escape codes" used to represent 8-bit characters
in a 7-bit character set (the basic Internet email standard only allows
7-bit characters). Mail readers are supposed to convert the escape codes
back into the proper character for display. It doesn't always work right
- and sometimes requires you to check the configuration of your mail
reader.
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