On 7 Apr 2019, at 3:27, Bill Cole wrote:
On 6 Apr 2019, at 7:27, Randy Bush wrote:
i presume the sender is thunderbird and they have created the text
with
some sort of windows encoding on a mac?
Apparently. I've seen this in mail recently as well and suspect it may
be a new default in
Ok, here’s what’s going on:
1. The message is encoded in windows-1252, and contains non-breaking
spaces (encoded as the byte 0xA0).
2. Your terminal is using a different character encoding (probably
UTF-8), in which 0xA0 (as used) does not map to a character. (In UTF-8,
0xA0 is a
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
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 >
Would you be willing to send me a copy of the .eml file so I can take a
look at it?
On 6 Apr 2019, at 15:21, Randy Bush wrote:
Looks like I confused windows-1252 with windows-1251 in some places
in
the message below
my mind stops at the word 'windows' if it does not have an X in
front. :)
On 6 Apr 2019, at 18:21, Randy Bush wrote:
>> Do they occur in the email you received, or are they introduced by the
>> way you are saving the text from the email? Examining the contents of
>> the raw `.eml` file is the first step to figuring that out.
>
> if i drag the message from mailmate to
> Looks like I confused windows-1252 with windows-1251 in some places in
> the message below
my mind stops at the word 'windows' if it does not have an X in
front. :)
> the question remains, at what point are those non-breaking spaces
> being translated into ``.
if i save the messge body and
Looks like I confused windows-1252 with windows-1251 in some places in
the message below, but nbsp is 0xa0 in both encodings, and the question
remains, at what point are those non-breaking spaces being translated
into ``. Do they occur in the email you received, or are they
introduced by the
They’re using [Postbox](https://www.postbox-inc.com/).
[windows-1252](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1251) is an 8-bit
extended ascii encoding, which Postbox supports.
The character with the `A0` character code in the windows-1251 encoding
is the [non-breaking
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
10 matches
Mail list logo
