On Friday 28 September 2007 11:08:24 Ronnie Gilkey wrote:
> Sure, clients like Thunderbird, or KMail are smart enough to see the =20
> on disk and translate it into a literal space in the client.  Some
> text-based clients may not perform that substitution.  But when the
> files are written on disk, they still contain the =20.  This is because
> various clients may have trouble viewing the data in one format or
> another, especially when using specific MIME types like UTF8, etc.  Then
> the client has the ability to read the encoded data and choose how to
> display it to the user.
>
> Ronnie
>

Yeah, but when it changes =" to =3D", it can really hose an HTML message, and 
KMail isn't as intelligent as it should be.

-- 
Thanks,
Fernando Vilas
fvilas at iname.com
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