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

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