I must point out that =20 is valid in both 7 and 8 bit ASCII (well now
ANSI) and it's the normal space/blank or whatever you want to call it.
so if it's a "7-bit" thing, it's a VERY bad coding error.
At Friday 4/2/99 21:28, Miles Fidelman wrote:
>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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