Re: Why's this look like gibberish to me?
Hello Andrei,
On 2008-05-05, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 10:49:44AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> 2008/5/5 Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>:
>> >> You are 100% correct, Andrei. See those Hebrew letters at the bottom
>> >> of every post I make? It's to build a database of wrongly-encoded
>> >
>> > No. I didn't trim anything from what you wrote. What am I missing?
>> >
>>
>> ?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?
>>
In the 'raw' version of the mail, the beginning of the above line reads:
=D7=90-=D7=91-=D7=92-=D7=93-=D7=94-=D7=95-=D7=96-=D7=97-=D7=98-=D7=99-
For example, 0xD7 0x90 is the UTF-8 encoding for the Hebrew letter aleph.
> [...]
> Is this a joke or am I missing something obvious? (wikipedia only shows
> a Hebrew diacritic, Patach, that looks like a dash)
>
So, there are UTF-8-encoded chars there which some of us do not see.
Regards,
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Christer
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