On 26 avr. 2004, at 17:09, Duo/2400 List wrote:
Yes, I see that happen all the time in here. Never heard a good reason why. Is that an Outlook thing? Every time somebody hits Return, I see "=20" or "=A9"...
This is what you'll see when a message was sent in MIME quoted-printable encoding, where "special" characters are instead sent as an equals sign followed by their ASCII value in hexadecimal. It's not specifically an Outlook thing, but you will see it from Outlook because it uses that encoding by default, even when there's no need (no funky characters in the message). Smarter clients like Eudora or Mail.app (probably) have a default setting to only use it when necessary to preserve things like high-ASCII characters (Latin-1 diacritics for instance).
There are two reasons you'll see the encoding instead of the intended message. The first is if your mail client doesn't support quoted-printable, or it or the sending client doesn't support it properly. Most modern ones do.
The second reason, which affects many people on this list, is that the list digestificator doesn't support quoted-printable encoding, and thus mungs any message encoded that way. URLs are particularly badly affected because they often contain characters that will be quoted.
Most lists have this problem, and many old clients still out there don't support quoted-printable, so by all means TURN IT OFF unless you know you need it - send messages in plain text. That's assuming Outlook even lets you do that nowadays (I guess we should be thankful we're not getting HTML ;).
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