Re: Getting strange char sequences in email

["Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>]

Hi,

these two headers tell what's going on:

> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

The character set is UTF-8 and the encoding tries to avoid
any byte value that is likely to be modified while the mail
is on its way.
See
  http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc1341/5_Content-Transfer-Encoding.html
  5.1 Quoted-Printable Content-Transfer-Encoding

It seems that your mail client (or the one you got a quote from)
did not convert the bytes back to UTF-8.
Just enter any of the "=XX=XX" sequences into Google.

"=C2=A0" is my old friend NBSP:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-breaking_space
"Sa=C5=A1a_Jani=C5=A1ka" is "Sasa_Janiska" with haceks on the "s".


Your own mail is declared as
  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
  Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
so that a correct mail client should not translate the "=C2=A0"
when displaying it.

Mine are sent as
  Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
  Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
but debian-user forwards them as
  Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
  Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I hope it does the necessary conversions. Let's see now.
I send it as "8bit" to myself and to the list ...


Have a nice day :)

Thomas