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[Uzoma Nwosu <uzoma AT metalab.unc.edu>]

huh huh, I'm using ISO 8859-1.  I'm constantly trying email clients under
linux (I'm looking kickass client and none have surfaced, like browsers
that all still suck--but that's another topic).  What should I have my
type set to?  I've noticed those characters occaisionly when I check mail
from other clients.

Sorry for making ugly type.  :)

Uzoma


On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Steven Champeon wrote:

> 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
>