gnupic: SDCC > M$loth-format > X-Mailer: Apple Mail
Subject:
Re: SDCC > M$loth-format > X-Mailer: Apple Mail
From:
Marco Pantaleoni ####@####.####
Date:
2 Jan 2005 18:41:59 +0000
Message-Id: <20050102194311.GA28619@lucifero>
On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 11:04:06PM -0700, Greg Hill wrote:
> On 2 Jan 2005, Paul B. Webster wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
> > 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".
>
> Special character encoding or escaping in URLs uses a % followed by two
> hex digits, rather than =. I think the original poster was asking about
> the encodings he sometimes sees in the message body of some emails,
> though, not about URLs.
Maybe he is not referring to the body but to some headers, like From
To and Subject. These headers in fact are encoded following RFC2047.
Cheers,
Marco
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elastiC language developer http://www.elasticworld.org
