on 12/10/05 10:37 PM, Doug McNutt at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> At 15:59 -0800 12/10/05, Randy Beaudreault wrote:
>> What generates the =20 characters at the end of some of the e-mails in the
>> digests?
> 
> Quoted Printable
> format-flowed
> 
> Flowed wraps lines to about 72 characters and makes each line end into a space
> and a return. Cooperating readers sense the space and unwrap to flow to window
> width. Other readers just don't see the spaces.
> 
> Quoted Printable changes such spaces to =20.
> 
> Now, when a digest has to mix varieties of messages there are problems with
> religious compliance with the RFC's. The whole digest has to use the same
> conventions.

Yeah, what Doug said, and in addition, 20H (hex) is the number for the space
character.

Rick


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