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

  • From: "Bruce Goatly" <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 18:40:22 +0100

Alan Leighton wrote:
> In message <571e6f144e.Alan.Adams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>           Alan Adams <alan.adams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> 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.
>>
> I have sent emails for ages and no one has ever said that. I asked a
> few to receive emails from me with Pound signs. They all said it was
> fine.

I think you overlooked a few important words. Here they are again:

> the list processing system
> has replaced it with a description saying text/plain, which is
> wrong.

The problem exists with this list, not (necessarily) with your mail 
software.

Bruce

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