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Re: [nmh-workers] Bleeping idiots!
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Ken Hornstein |
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Re: [nmh-workers] Bleeping idiots! |
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Tue, 16 Jul 2019 08:50:30 -0400 |
>> > Content-Type: text/html; charset="ansi_x3.4-1968"
>>
>> That character set is interesting.
>
>The 1968 revision allows LF to occur on its own compared to 1967's where
>it always had to be LF CR or CR LF, but other than that still had many
>of 67's oddities, e.g. ‘!’ could be rendered as ‘!’ or ‘|’, ditto ‘^’
>that was allowed to look like ‘¬’. Probably not the creator of that
>Content-Type field's intention.
I was more thinking that I was not sure that was valid, but I guess
looking at the IANA registry it's a permitted alias for us-ascii. I am
wondering if either that was some software that did that, or some human
thought that was a good idea.
--Ken