Hi Trent & Erik,

I believe those hidden text or peculiar format that you had referred to
might be because part of those text I actually copied and pasted directly
from the forum which I quoted the text.  Sorry for the confusion caused.

I now present the part of the copied text from my original email, and
compare it with what I had re-typed, to see any difference:

<Start Original Copy Text>
*Black Screen/ Video Modes*
This usually required with AMD or nVidia
​, suggested kernel parameters:
​
in place of quiet splash
​, adding​

acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor
</Start Original Copy Text>

Text re-typed:
Black Screen/Video Modes
This usually required with AMD or nVidia, suggested kernel parameters:
in place of quiet splash, we add:
acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor

H.T.H.

Wen




On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 7:33 PM, Erik Christiansen <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 15.09.14 10:38, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> > Wen Lin <[email protected]> writes:
> >
> > > This usually required with AMD or nVidia
> > > <200b>, suggested kernel parameters:
> > > <200b>in place of quiet splash
> > > <200b>, adding<200b>
> > >
> > > acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor
> > >
> > > <200b>And it worked after that!
> >
> > I read this list via gmane, and the above looks weird there:
> > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.luv.general/4108
> >
> > It looks the same in my newsreader.
> >
> > At first I thought there were inline multipart MIME objects
> > (e.g. between "parameters:" and "in place of"), but what looks like an
> > underscore in Emacs is apparently a ZERO WIDTH SPACE (0x200B, or &#8203;
> > in the HTML link above).
>
> Looking at the post in mutt, a whole bunch of those "=E2=80=8B"¹ whatsits
> occur in both the text/plain and text/html components of the message.
>
> Curiously, they are invisible in mutts pager, but five of them appear
> (in a highlight colour) as "<200b>" in the quoted text above, in vim as
> I compose this reply. To render them at your end, I've converted each to
> its 6 character rendering here.
>
> There seems to be one immediately before or after every newline
> terminating a non-blank line - almost. One blank line seems to have
> caused the whatsit on the "acpi_osi=" line to occur early.
>
> My guess is that the text was generated with some sort of M$ product.
> (So perhaps, as in daily life now, we should be alarmed but not alert.)
>
> Erik
>
> ¹ That's "= E 2 = 8 0 = 8 B", without spaces, in case mail agents
>   perform contortions on it.
>
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