Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/04/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I don't remember the nuts and bolts of it, but it's not the sender sending stuff like =20, it's their mailer. What you're seeing is character substitution "=20" means "There's supposed to be a space here, I can't do that, so I'll represent it with its hex value (20)." Sometimes you'll see equal signs without hex values splattered throughout a message. That's a good indication the message was created with word processing software and pasted into the mailer's composing tool. Looks real nice in the mailer, but the lines don't really fit the mailer's margins. Lines that are supposed to break at 79 characters don't. The mailer breaks them and places an equal sign to indicate where the author wanted the line to break. Ain't technology great! Roger > From: Wolfgang Sachse <sachse@msc.cornell.edu> > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Leica Newsgroup) > Reply-to: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: LUG via Mac's and Windows...PLEASE > Date: Sun, 13 Apr 97 14:08:48 +0000 > > f=F6rsamlingen Malm=F6 = > > for 2 monaden och prater svenska d=E5lig) or german > > (Nat=FCrlich :-) = ). > > If you want to send the latter, why not send: > Natuerlich? That way anyone can easily read what you > are trying to send. This was one (trivial) example, > othertimes we see =20 at the end of each line. I find >