On 02Feb2018 10:25, Yubin Ruan <[email protected]> wrote:
I try to save a multipart/alternative attachment to file but all the content
seems to be messed up. When view in a pager, it look good:
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LinkedIn Highlights
Should I tell coworkers my salary?
264 people are talking about this
https://www.linkedin.com/comm/search/results/content/?keywords=Should+I+tell+coworkers+my+salary%3F&origin=FED_EMAIL&anchorTopic=506458&midToken=AQFSR-6AohV2qQ&trk=eml-email_feed_ecosystem_digest_01-hero-1-null&trkEmail=eml-email_feed_ecosystem_digest_01-hero-1-null-null-6mvow3%7Ejd475j9d%7Ey4-null-neptune%2Fsearch%2Eresults%2Econtent&lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Aemail_email_feed_ecosystem_digest_01%3BrxyHuw3NTWi4n8fHNW81ig%3D%3D
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However, when saved to a file, it become:
(which is the same as in editor when you press 'e' to edit the email)
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LinkedIn Highlights
Should I tell coworkers my salary?
264 people are talking about this
https://www.linkedin.com/comm/search/results/content/?keywords=3DShould+I+t=
ell+coworkers+my+salary%3F&origin=3DFED_EMAIL&anchorTopic=3D506458&midToken=
=3DAQFSR-6AohV2qQ&trk=3Deml-email_feed_ecosystem_digest_01-hero-1-null&trkE=
mail=3Deml-email_feed_ecosystem_digest_01-hero-1-null-null-6mvow3%7Ejd475j9=
d%7Ey4-null-neptune%2Fsearch%2Eresults%2Econtent&lipi=3Durn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ae=
mail_email_feed_ecosystem_digest_01%3BrxyHuw3NTWi4n8fHNW81ig%3D%3D
=20
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I know the tailing = at the end is to enable the pager to prettify thing. But
can we save directly from the pager?
I don't think this is anything to do with locales.
I'm presuming you're talking about saving something from the attachment menu?
And not about saving a message complete.
What you show above is interesting.
It looks to me like the second version, the folded lines ending in "=", is
quoted-printable, which encoded most ASCII range text as itself, with escape
sequences for various bytes not in the common lower range and of course for the
escape character "=" itself. Its purpose it to get text through various systems
undamaged while keeping it visually fairly readable.
Normally, that would be the attachment's Content-Transfer-Encoding, which I
would expect to be decoded on save, because the attachment is no longer
enclosed in a mail message structure.
Apparently not the case.
Can you describe _exactly_ what procedure your went through to save this
message, from the index view (list of message titels/authors only) through to
saving the file? So that we can reproduce what you've done and understand it?
Thanks,
Cameron Simpson <[email protected]> (formerly [email protected])
