At 13:36 2015-02-04, Ted Roche <[email protected]> wrote:
You can view the entire thread online at:
http://leafe.com/archives/full_thread/497815
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.
I saw the infinity symbol on the Web page but not in the post.
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/
If LFs are stripped prior to display (or are ignored), that
would account for the scrunching together.
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?
Eudora.
[snipped previous]
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
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