On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 04:26:15PM -0500, Dan McGhee wrote: > > > > I haven't yet had a chance to actually read the hint, but the format is > > wrong. It is not ASCII and the lines exceed 80 characters. > > > > There are a ton of sequences like: â~@~ What did you use to compose the > > hint? I recommend vim. > > > > In a browser I get things like: > > > > UUID’s > > “Secure Boot.†> > “UEFI†> > > > Thanks for the “heads up.” Bruce. As I said, I composed it on my iMac in > Pages, the word processing app. I think “exported” it to plain text. I’ll > see if I can’t move it over to my laptop and open it vim. I suspect it’s the > HFS+ formatting. We’ll see. > > Dan > In mutt, looking at the attachments I can see there are: I 1 <no description> (that is the email itself)
[multipa/alternativ, 7bit, 23K] I 2 ├─><no description> [text/plain, quoted, utf-8, 2.4K] I 3 └─><no description> [multipa/mixed, 7bit, 21K] I 4 ├─><no description> [text/html, quoted, utf-8, 4.8K] A 5 ├─>Draft_Grub_Hint.txt This looks ok to me : it seems to be plain text (I did not check the line width). To be honest, Bruce's "accented a letters plus random extra letters" look similar to what happens when people try to read UTF-8 text in legacy encodings. [text/plain, quoted, us-ascii, 15K] I 6 └─><no description> [text/html, 7bit, us-ascii, 0.2K] I 7 <no description> [text/plain, 7bit, us-ascii, 0.1K] ĸen - currently _suffering_ for his love of UTF-8 ;) -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
