gnupic: SDCC > M$loth-format > X-Mailer: Apple Mail
Subject:
Re: SDCC > M$loth-format > X-Mailer: Apple Mail
From:
"Paul B. Webster" ####@####.####
Date:
2 Jan 2005 04:14:14 +0000
Message-Id: <1104639246.2899.112516.camel@dads.webstermed>
On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 00:36, ####@####.#### wrote:
> I've always thought that the top-posting and funny chars:
> "=3D", "=20" come from M$loth users.
It's referred to as "ASCII". $20 is the 'space' character, whilst $3D
is 'equals'.
I think you need this link:
http://www.asciitable.com/
You see, you can't put special characters such as spaces, equals and
semicolons and such, into URLs, so if you *need* to include them in
arguments and such they are "escaped" by specifying as a hex value
prefixed by "=". Since "=" is used as the escape character, it must
itself appear, if part of an argument, as "=3D".
And this system, called the Internet/ World Wide Web, was most
certainly built on *nix, *not* Windoze.
--
Cheers,
Paul B.
