Re: [Kind of OT] Why's this look like gibberish to me?
On 26/04/2008, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <ekalin@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> T24gRnJpLCBBcHIgMjUsIDIwMDggYXQgMTo1OCBQTSwgR2lsbGVzIE1vY2VsbGluIDxnaWxsZXMu
> >> bW9jZWxsaW5AZnJlZS5mcj4Kd3JvdGU6Cgo+IExlIEZyaWRheSAyNSBBcHJpbCAyMDA4IDE1OjUw
> >>
>
> 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.
>
You are correct. The text quoted translated to this:
"""
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Gilles Mocellin <gilles.mocellin@free.fr>
wrote:
> Le Friday 25 April 2008 15:50
"""
Dotan Cohen
http://what-is-what.com
http://gibberish.co.il
א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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