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  • From: Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: internetworkers digest: December 12, 2000
  • Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 11:27:59 -0500


on Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 06:24:09AM -0500, Acipa Media Inc. wrote:
> Uzi
>
> At this risk of sounding like an knucklehead, what does the =20 mean?

It means Uzi's email tool is set up to generate "Quoted-Printable"
text, which is an ugly way to send 8bit or unprintable characters
(such as hard returns, spaces, vertical tabs, guillemots, etc.) as
their hexadecimal equivalent preceded by an equals sign. Note the
similarity between

=20

and

http://example.com/some%20file.html

for example. =20 is a "quoted-printable" space character, just as %20
is a URLEncoded space character.

HTH,
Steve

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