Re: Why's this look like gibberish to me?
2008/5/5 Christer Oldhoff <coldhoff@swipnet.se>:
> 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.
Right, now run that text through the engine at http://gibberish.co.il
and see that even the encoded UTF-8 it parses properly.
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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