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 `<A0>`. 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.
Best,
Galen
On 6 Apr 2019, at 10:51, Galen Menzel wrote:
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
space](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-breaking_space). So somewhere
along the way the non-breaking spaces are being replaced by `<A0>`.
Does this `<A0>` stuff show up when you view the raw message in
MailMate (with ⌥⌘U)?
What happens if you use `less` to view the message’s `.eml` file?
Best,
Galen
On 6 Apr 2019, at 4:27, 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
Content-Language: en-US
the text has funny space characters that i see if i save the text to
disk and look at it with less
<A0>0.<A0><A0> flo....: 2.31 2018.11.03
<A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0> 1.<A0><A0> CLIMATE
ACTION
<A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0> * (N)ew
(M)odify (D)elete..: N
<A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0> 2. * NAME OF CLOUD:
cumulus
i presume the sender is thunderbird and they have created the text
with
some sort of windows encoding on a mac?
how can i save the content as vanilla ascii text?
randy
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