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Re: [Nmh-workers] I like neither green eggs and ham nor MIME
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Paul Fox |
Subject: |
Re: [Nmh-workers] I like neither green eggs and ham nor MIME |
Date: |
Thu, 17 Jul 2014 09:26:13 -0400 |
ken wrote:
> >> Also, I do not think you could accurately represent the Principia without
> >> some of the mathematical symbols available in Unicode. I mean, it's hard
> >> to
> >> do a\xB2 + b\xB2 = c\xB2,
>
> So ... this brings up something where we didn't do a good job.
>
> I sent out my original reply to Norm's email with the line:
>
> a² + b² = c²
>
> Those superscript 2's are the Unicode character U+00B2. Looking at the
> mailing list archives, they got sent out encoded in quoted-printable, maybe
> because one of my lines was a little too long. So the actual text looked
> like:
>
> a=C2=B2 + b=C2=B2 =3D c=C2=B2
the copy i received was charset utf-8, encoding base64. no q-p to be seen.
paul
>
> The character set was UTF-8. As far as I know, that's all good. However,
> Norm's reply wasn't so great. It was sent with a character set of UTF-8
> (good), encoded in quoted-printable (also good), but the line he quoted
> above contained:
>
> a=B2 + b=B2 =3D c=B2
>
> Which are the superscript '2's, but in ISO-8859-1. So we've got a situation
> where the email I sent out was, AFAIK, correctly encoded, but somewhere
> at Norm's end the UTF-8 characters got converted into ISO-8859-1 (which
> is fine), but the character set of Norm's reply to me was set to UTF-8
> (which is NOT fine). 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.
>
> --Ken
>
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- [Nmh-workers] I like neither green eggs and ham nor MIME, norm, 2014/07/16
- Re: [Nmh-workers] I like neither green eggs and ham nor MIME, Paul Fox, 2014/07/16
- Re: [Nmh-workers] I like neither green eggs and ham nor MIME, Earl Hood, 2014/07/16
- Re: [Nmh-workers] I like neither green eggs and ham nor MIME, Ken Hornstein, 2014/07/16
- Re: [Nmh-workers] I like neither green eggs and ham nor MIME, Michael Richardson, 2014/07/17
- Re: [Nmh-workers] I like neither green eggs and ham nor MIME, Ken Hornstein, 2014/07/17
- Re: [Nmh-workers] I like neither green eggs and ham nor MIME, Michael Richardson, 2014/07/17
- Re: [Nmh-workers] I like neither green eggs and ham nor MIME, Ken Hornstein, 2014/07/17
- Re: [Nmh-workers] I like neither green eggs and ham nor MIME, Michael Richardson, 2014/07/17
- Re: [Nmh-workers] I like neither green eggs and ham nor MIME, Chad Brown, 2014/07/18
- Re: [Nmh-workers] I like neither green eggs and ham nor MIME, norm, 2014/07/17
- Re: [Nmh-workers] I like neither green eggs and ham nor MIME, Ken Hornstein, 2014/07/17
- Re: [Nmh-workers] I like neither green eggs and ham nor MIME, norm, 2014/07/17