n...@dad.org wrote: > Ken Hornstein <k...@pobox.com> writes: > > > I'd like to understand how that happened so we can > > fix it in the future (I am guessing maybe this happened in your editor). > > Norm, which editor are you using to compose/reply to email? Are you > > using anything like replyfilter? (You would have had to configure that). > > Anything you can tell us about your setup would be useful. > > To to best of my 82 year old mind's recollection, I did exactly what I am > doing now: > > 1. I displayed your message using mhshow onto a terminal emulator. >
since you trust your editor, this is the suspicious step, to me, since it depends on your terminal emulator and windowing system doing the right thing: > 2. I copied and pasted some of your message from the terminal emulator > into my editor. what happens if you do the above (just copy the a² + b² = c² line, for testing purposes), then write your edit buffer out to a file, then: $ cat /tmp/a2b2c2 | hexdump -C i get: 00000000 61 c2 b2 20 2b 20 62 c2 b2 20 3d 20 63 c2 b2 0a |a.. + b.. = c...| paul > > 3. From my editor I: > > 4. Used a regular expression filter, built into my editor, to prepend > "<" to each line of your text. > > 5. Used a fill filter, built into my editor, on the result. > > 6. Interspersed text of my own. > > 7. Stored the result in UTF-8. > > "My editor" is a 25 year old program, I write (note the tense) myself. It was > originally written in C, but I ported it to Java about 10 years ago. I use it > for pretty much everything, including program development and EMail. Its > source is now about 25,000 lines of mostly Java and some C. Interanlly, it > can represent any ISO character. > > I have a vast choice of formats to write to external media. But, my editor > now, defaultly requires that all characters that I am writing can be > represented in the format chosen. A few weeks ago, I changed the default > output format from US-ASCII to UTF-8, because I was receiving more and more > text that was not ASCII. I did so very reluctantly, because I am loathe to > sprinkle non-ASCII characters in my file system. But I had to give in to > external pressures from my friends and relatives. I had been applying a > filter > that converted non-ASCII characters into ASCII strings. > > UTF-8 has the virtue that it represents ASCII characters in ASCII. But now > you > tell me that not even UTF-8 is good enough. So what format do you want me to > use to for writing EMail destined text? > > Note: I have not yet figured out how to install the optional repl software. I > plan to someday. > > Norman Shapiro > > _______________________________________________ > Nmh-workers mailing list > Nmh-workers@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers =---------------------- paul fox, p...@foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's 70.5 degrees) _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers