[SI-LIST] Re: test board

> I am not sure where the 3D came from. I entered Z equal B, where I
> used the "equal to" character??? 

It's a common mail system mixup.

The basic problem is how to handle "strange" characters that might confuse 
software that is processing mail.

One way is uuencode or base64 encoding.  That is hard/impossible to scan 
visually and takes a lot more space if the message is mostly simple text.

Another way is "quoted-printable".  It works better if there are only a few 
strange characters.  The idea is "=" is special.  If there is an "=" in the 
message, the following 2 characters are the hex value of the character.  
Normal text is unchanged so you can easily read the message if it's simple 
text.

The hex value for = is 3D.  So if you see "=3D" where an = would make more 
sense, some mail system probably used  quoted-printable and the note 
someplace else in the message (probably headers, maybe mime headers) saying 
that it was used got lost when the message was forwarded or cut-paste or...


There was a discussion here not long ago about the similar problem of base64 
encoded messages coming through as base64.  (I just delete them.)




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