Were yo able to successfully convert the message back? It should read something like "Listen to pauldotcom"
Adrian On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Grymoire <[email protected]> wrote: > > >It might be interesting to see if it survives being replied/forwarded too. > > It got converted to quoted-printable. So '\240' (the space character > with parity bit set) got converted into =A0 > > Hmm....... Just looking at the tail end of the message where the > whitespace is, I used the following filter on the quoted printable > forwarded message: > > sed 's/=A0/X/g' </tmp/b |tr -cd 'X ' | tr 'X' '\240' | od -c > > and got: > > 0000000 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 > 0000020 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 > 0000040 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 > 0000060 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 > 0000100 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 > 0000120 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 > 0000140 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 > 0000160 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 > 0000200 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 > 0000220 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 > 0000240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 > 0000260 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 > 0000300 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 > 0000314 > > I used > tr -d 'a-zA-Z,<>'| od -c > on the tail end of the original HTML message gives: > > 0000000 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 > 0000020 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 > 0000040 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 > 0000060 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 > 0000100 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 > 0000120 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 > 0000140 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 > 0000160 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 > 0000200 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 > 0000220 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 > 0000240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 > 0000260 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 > 0000300 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 \n > 0000315 > > So I think it's conclusive that it does survive forwarding > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com >
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