Erik Trulsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 05:28:39PM +0100, John Murphy wrote: >> Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >In the last episode (Jul 09), John Murphy said: >> >> While browsing the freebsd-questions archives at freebsd.org and via >> >> google, I noticed that corruption occurs, under some circumstances, >> >> where "=" becomes "=3D" (3D is ascii for =) and some spaces are shown >> >> as "=20". >> > >> >Sounds like quoted-printable MIME encoding. >> > >> >> The first instances of the problem (found via google groups) occurred >> >> ~1994! The first archived in this list ~Feb. 2000. >> >> >> >> The same corruption can be seen in the mailing.freebsd.questions >> >> newsgroup so it's not an http/html problem. >> > >> >Do you have a message-id of a message showing this? >> >> This URL: <http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?dtfte05p8b3djcvtbp9o24fqpopbiakosj> >> shows the mess made of my original post. > >The archive shows your post exactly as it was sent.
I'm amazed. "=" shows as "=3D" and "=3D" as "=3D3D" for me! Hyphen hyphen space (sig separator) as "--=20". >Your mails are >encoded with quoted-printable, which does encode some characters as you >indicate. The archive is not corrupted since it displays the mails >exactly as they were received. The browsers I've tried are set to Western (ISO-8859-1). >It would be desirable to have the mails in the archive converted from >quoted-printable into standard 8-bit clean format, but no corruption >happens. The apparent corruption must be visible to many users; can't be just me. -- John. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
