[JA] Re: What's this in the Subject Line
- From: bob.in.jersey@xxxxxxxx
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- Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 17:30:32 EST
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 09:14:05 -0800 babette bloch replied to George
Lunt:
> That was really helpful. However, how come such a line appeared
> in a perfectly OK message from a friend, with his regular subject
> line in the middle of the coded stuff?
Again, that's the first of the two examples I gave earlier. The
regular letters and digits are passed through unconverted, while the
special characters get converted generally to a sequence of the form
"=XX", that is, an equal sign followed by two other characters,
which in fact are the hexadecimal (base-16) value of the converted
character based on its position in the ASCII definition table.
For instance, a space " " becomes "=20", or 32.
Or, a trademark registry symbol "®" becomes "=AE", or 174.
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