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>>>>> "JK" == Jeffrey Kaplan <jkaplan@world.std.com> writes:
JK> William Porter, you recently wrote:
; I have been getting this "=20" on bounced messages of late...any
; ideas...wporter@aamc.org
JK> '=20' is an artifact of a MIME-encapsulated message.
More correctly, it and similar codes are generated when 8-bit text is
converted into "quoted-printable"[1] text. QP converts characters with the
high bit set to a hexadecimal rendering preceded by an '=' ('=' characters
are also converted to hex renderings). An artifcact of QP encoding is that
trailing whitespace is also converted, so if a line has a trailing space
(ASCII 32, 20H), it is converted to the hex equivalent[2], '=20'.
[1] Frequently called "quoted-unreadable" because QP text is usually more
unreadable than it is printable.
[2] Why? Someone utterly failed to consider the problems it would create
in relation to the perceived problem it would solve... kinda like HTML in
mail message bodies. :)
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Rich Pieri <rich.pieri@prescienttech.com> / If Happy Fun Ball begins to smoke,
Sysmonster, Unix Wrangler / get away immediately. Seek shelter
Prescient Technologies, Inc. / and cover head.
I speak for myself, not PTI or SWEC /
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