[SI-LIST] Re: URLs -- Re: Spam friendly URL Shorteners

> It seems that long URLs (even those with non-alphanum characters like
> underscore, question mark, equals) come through OK if you post in
> Outlook plain text mode. Posting from Outlook HTML mode definitely
> mangles the URL in an unpredictable way. (Example: equals followed by
> "eng" was OK. Equals followed by "13" was converted into a double
> exclamation Unicode character). 

Equal-sign is the escape character for quoted-printable.  That's the encoding 
format used when things are mostly simple text but you need a few special 
characters.  The 2 characters after the equal-sign are the hex encoding for 
the character.  That's why you see =3D so often.  3D is hex for equal-sign so 
=3D decodes back to =.  If you see =3D where you expect =, somebody encoded 
it and somebody else didn't decode it.

Quoted printable only gets you to 256 characters, but thats enough for most 
of the extra European characters.  There are lots of fights over which set of 
extra characters you want to use.


-- 
These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's.  I hate spam.



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