Subject: [WSFA] Re: Voyager 1 anniversary
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 00:35:00 -0400

On 9/7/2017 5:16 PM, Michael Walsh wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 10:29 PM, Keith F. Lynch <kfl at keithlynch.net> wr=
ote:
>
> [mucho text deleted]
>
>> And please turn off the MIME.  Thanks.
> How do you turn off Marcel Marceau?
>
> mjw

You should probably ask Mrs. Marceau...

There wasn't any real MIME content to turn off.=A0 I sent it "plain text =

only".=A0 Thunderbird puts a MIME version in the headers, but there wasn'=
t
any multi-part, HTML, image, or other non-text content.=A0 This is from m=
y
original reply:

Message-ID: <dc6bebd4-7edb-12df-f47e-38e2ca680c14 at omniphile.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 12:09:21 -0400
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101
  Thunderbird/52.3.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: <20170906021643.3B07252FA at panix6.panix.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Language: en-US

The goofy "=C2=A0" (non-breaking space) and "=20" (space at the end=
 of a
line) stuff
is just UTF8 text that's part of the "quoted-printable" encoding, that
only appears
on-screen when the headers that tell mail readers how to interpret them
are deleted
in forwarding the message. Keith's mail list processor strips out that
stuff in the header, but
doesn't alter the content of the message that it was explaining how to
interpret.

UTF8 is a standard way to encode text on the internet...the lower values =

are single bytes
identical to ASCII, and anything over 127 is for additional characters
that ASCII doesn't
have, like non-breaking-space, soft hyphen, registered trademark symbol, =

and modifiers
used in some languages, like cedilla or acute accent.

I've told T-bird to use "Western" text encoding for this one, rather
than UTF-8. I'm hoping
that means "ASCII", but it's possible that all the characters may be
made up from horseshoes
and lariats...

-- Mike B.