On Sun, 1 Jul 2018 21:03:32 -0400, Don Poitras wrote: >I read IBM-MAIN from a newsreader. The rexx script had lots of the blanks >repaced with something else. Saving the file and looking at the headers, >I see: > >--- >> Mime-Version: 1.0 >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r; format=flowed >> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit >--- > >I'm guessing Ed didn't intend to use a Russion character set. :) If that >wasn't what >was used in the email, then it was added as it progressed through the news >servers. > Me, too.
The "something else" is X'9A' which is koi-8r NBSP, which would be x'A0' in Unicode. WTF? It depends on how I view it. Some viewers display those as x'20', genuine USASCII spaces. I give the process a C-. How do those viewers know that I don't really want koi8-r NBSP? > ... >> ?????????????????????? /* "q volhist begindate=TODAY-1 begintime=15:00:00" >> */ , >> ... -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
