Marco Maggi <[email protected]> writes: > Andy Wingo wrote: >> You mention in your original report: >> CFLAGS=3D'-O3 -march=3Di686 -mtune=3Di686' > >> Are the "3D" things an artifact of some mailing list >> encoding thing, or are they a mis-paste? > > They were just "=" characters, but while pasting them into > Emacs from a terminal (?) caused them to be converted to > "=3D" for some reason unknown to me.
"=" is encoded as "=3D" when using MIME's "quoted-printable" content transfer encoding <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoted-printable>, which is commonly used to encode 8-bit messages for email. (0x3D is the ASCII value of '='). Marco's email should have included the following header, but didn't: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Since the above header was not present, our email clients did not know to decode the quoted-printable escapes. Emacs users could have done: M-x quoted-printable-decode-region to decode the message manually. Best, Mark
