Re: Bad Character
Re: Bad Character
- Subject: Re: Bad Character
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 09:51:55 -0400
OK, so we know that Yvan's original message was OK. Now let's see
what happened to mess up Luther's script.
Here's Yvan original subject header:
Subject: =?windows-1252?q?Setting_Pages_Insertion_point_=28was_Setting_Te?=
=?windows-1252?q?xtEdit=85=29?=
That correctly has the Windows-1252 character hexadecimal 85 = decimal
133, an ellipsis (…).
That should be converted to U+2026 HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS in Unicode, or
MacRoman character decimal 201.
But Shane's reply, which is the one that caused Luther's script to
break, had this header:
Subject: Re: Setting Pages Insertion point (was Setting TextEdit
=?iso-8859-1?q?=8A?=)
Now the character has magically transmogrified into hexadecimal 8A,
decimal 138, in Latin-1. That's a control character; specifically,
it's supposed to be used to instruct a display terminal to set a
vertical tab stop.
Obviously something on Shane's end did a bad conversion. I don't know
why Luther's script broke on the control char; it's unusual, but not
invalid. But it does seem arguably reasonable to treat it as a space.
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