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And see Ed's use of the infinity symbol. In your response, it came back as a couple of incorrect symbols, typical of what a reader program does when it stumbles across an encoded character it doesn't recognize. Did you see the infinity symbol? That would be a helpful clue. When I "View Original" on Ed's message, to view the message headers, it's encoded Base64. and the header includes all sorts of interesting information: To: [email protected] X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.2070.6) X-StripMime: Non-text section removed by stripmime ... Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 I think the key items are the last two, for encoding. But it may be that Ed's message, being sent from a Mac, only has linefeed line endings, rather than CR-LF of DOS/Windows. I can't see the actual content due to the base64 encoding. And my email reader is a web service, so it likely hides all that nonsense from me/ Using https://www.base64decode.org/, I can generate many results from the original where I see the infinity symbol mis-translated, but not one were the paragraph-line-endings are missing so the text is all packed together, as you describe. What email client do you use to read the messages? On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Gene Wirchenko <[email protected]> wrote: > At 10:49 2015-02-03, Ted Roche <[email protected]> wrote: > > I saw Ed's message without the garble I see in your quoted reply. I >> suspect >> your email client is not properly recognizing the Unicode symbol for >> infinity, and likely not parsing the message as Unicode, as Ed said, "many >> email readers might not properly display the infinity symbol." >> > > It is not that I am seeing something like, "The quick, brown fox > GARBLEumps over the lazy dog." I see the whole message being packed > together without regard to line breaks. > > Maybe, that is a Unicode issue. Anyway, it has been reported by > others as well, and your post is the first that I have seen suggesting any > sort of answer. > > Sincerely, > > Gene Wirchenko > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CACW6n4voWvEp2bjnO3R2nHO6c1e6-ie0=-tu4sbjvukxbzg...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
