Re: [Kind of OT] Why's this look like gibberish to me?
s. keeling wrote:
> Sorry for the thread snatch.
>
> I'm (usually*) reading d-u in slrn via the mail to news gateway
> linux.debian.user. I've seen this before and I'm wondering if there's
> anything I can do about it, other than going utf-8 myself (I've no
> need for it (I think)).
>
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> Bipin Babu <bipinbabu@gmail.com>:
>
>> ------=_Part_7962_22139442.1209161466138
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
>> Content-Disposition: inline
>>
>> T24gRnJpLCBBcHIgMjUsIDIwMDggYXQgMTo1OCBQTSwgR2lsbGVzIE1vY2VsbGluIDxnaWxsZXMu
>> bW9jZWxsaW5AZnJlZS5mcj4Kd3JvdGU6Cgo+IExlIEZyaWRheSAyNSBBcHJpbCAyMDA4IDE1OjUw
>>
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>
I do not think the problem is with UTF-8. If it were, you'd see two (or
more) strange characters instead of accented letters or letters of other
writing systems. It does not look like that.
I think the problem is that the message is coded in base64, even if it
is (mostly) plaintext.
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