Re: [Kind of OT] Why's this look like gibberish to me?
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On 04/26/08 07:14, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 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
> """
Yup. I found it in my archive, and it's definitely in base64.
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Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:11:06 -0700
From: "Bipin Babu" <bipinbabu@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Grub2
In-Reply-To: <[🔎] 200804252258.26473.gilles.mocellin@free.fr>
This Bipin Babu must have screwed up his gmail configuration, and
doesn't notice, because gmail, Thunderbird, KMail are auto-
converting it.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
We want... a Shrubbery!!
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