[softwarelist] Re: pdf, ovation, risc oss and money

In message <1a803f144e.alan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
          Alan Leighton <alan.leighton2@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In message <001d01c65a98$51bfa200$145ab4ca@XPHOMEPC>
>           "Dan McCarthy" <danmccat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>>>>=20
>>>>=20
>>>I may not be an entrepreneur but would readily donate =A360
>> 
>>>--=20
>>>Alan Leighton (Rev Dr)
>>>Priory Lodge
>>>86b Church Lane, Eston, TS6 9QR
>> 
>> As an aside, it could avoid confusion if people used the word Pound on
>> this list. On this system it appeared that Dr Leighton was offering to pay
>> three hundred and sixty Australian dollars
>> 
> I do not know that happened, I said 60 UK pounds. Where all this =20
> comes from I havent a clue.
> 
> Lets get that clear ;-)

It's a problem we've seen before on this list. Briefly, your email is 
send using an encoding format called printed-quotable, because it has 
a pound sign which, being a top-bit-set character, isn't in the set of 
characters allowed by email. (email uses the Telnet protocol as a 
carrier, and Telnet uses the characters with Ascii codes less than 32 
- the so-called control characters - to control its data flow. It is a 
7-bit transport, so cannot carry top-bit-set characters. Mime 
encoding, with various encoding systems, is the way round that.)

The email you sent would have had an ideitifier line describing the 
following part as quoted-printable, but the list processing system has 
replaced it with a description saying text/plain, which is wrong. The 
result is that we see the qupted-printable characters.

=20 is the substitution for a space, normally only inserted where the 
space is at the end of a line. The pound character is ASCII A3 (hex) 
so is encoded as =A3.

Alan

-- 
Alan Adams, from Northamptonshire
alan.adams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.nckc.org.uk/

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