I don’t think this is an encoding issue. I think it’s an issue with
the original source of the text in the email. (It looks like it was
possibly copied from a terminal interface of some sort… is that
right?)
In the terminal, you can use `tr` to fix this:
```
tr '\xA0' ' ' < mymail.txt > mymail.fixed.txt
```
If that’s not your bag, a sufficiently advanced text editor should be
able to take care of it. In BBEdit (my editor of choice) this will do
suffice:
Find: `\x{A0}`
Replace: ` ` <-a single space character
Grep: on
By the way, the BBEdit command “Zap Gremlins” can take care of all
sorts of weird characters for you. I use it habitually when receiving
“text” from questionable sources. Other text editors may have
similar functionality.
Hope this helps!
-sam
On 6 Apr 2019, at 7:27, Randy Bush wrote:
i receive an email
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:52.0)
Gecko/20100101 PostboxApp/6.1.13
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Content-Language: en-US
the text has funny space characters that i see if i save the text to
disk and look at it with less
<A0>0.<A0><A0> flo....: 2.31 2018.11.03
<A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0> 1.<A0><A0> CLIMATE
ACTION
<A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0> * (N)ew
(M)odify (D)elete..: N
<A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0> 2. * NAME OF CLOUD:
cumulus
i presume the sender is thunderbird and they have created the text
with
some sort of windows encoding on a mac?
how can i save the content as vanilla ascii text?
randy
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