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Re: =?utf-7?b?UkU6IFJFOiBUaGUgY2hhcmFjdGVyICcrSUNvZ0t5QXNJQzBnTGlBcUlDcy0=?= =?utf-7?b?K0lDd2dMU0F1QklrLSc=?=
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:54:42 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: =?utf-7?b?UkU6IFJFOiBUaGUgY2hhcmFjdGVyICcrSUNvZ0t5QXNJQzBnTGlBcUlDcy0=?= =?utf-7?b?K0lDd2dMU0F1QklrLSc=?=
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On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 28 August 2007 14:24, Igor Peshansky wrote:
>
> +AD4- On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Dave Korn wrote:
> +AD4-
> +AD4APg- On 27 August 2007 16:53, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> +AD4APg-
> +AD4APgA+- Dave Korn wrote:
> +AD4APgA+AD4- Maybe if I try again, in UTF-8 encoding this time. Meanwhile just for new
> +AD4APgA+AD4- content, I hear that corrupt perjurer Gonzales has just resigned. Hooray.
> +AD4APgA+AD4-
> +AD4APgA+AD4- I just read about it on tdwtf+AFsAKgBd-, so I wondered if it would work here too.
> +AD4APgA+AD4-
> +AD4APgA+AD4- So then:
> +AD4APgA+AD4- +AOIA/wD/AKoA4gD/AP8AqwDiAP8A/wCsAOIA/wD/AK0A4gD/AP8ArgDiAP8A/wCqAOIA/wD/AKsA4gD/AP8ArADiAP8A/wCtAOIA/wD/AK4A4gD/AP8AqgDiAP8A/wCrAOIA/wD/AKwA4gD/AP8ArQDiAP8A/wCuAOIA/wD/AKoA4gD/AP8AqwDiAP8A/wCsAOIA/wD/AK0A4gD/AP8ArgDSAP8A/w-
> +AD4APgA+AD4-
> +AD4APgA+AD4- .retcarahc taht retfa sdrawkcab enog evah dluohs gnihtyreveE .gnikrow s'ti
> +AD4APgA+AD4- kniht t'nod I ,epoN
> +AD4APgA+AD4-
> +AD4APgA+AD4- +AOIA/wD/AKoA4gD/AP8AqwDiAP8A/wCsAOIA/wD/AK0A4gD/AP8ArgDiAP8A/wCqAOIA/wD/AKsA4gD/AP8ArADiAP8A/wCtAOIA/wD/AK4A4gD/AP8AqgDiAP8A/wCrAOIA/wD/AKwA4gD/AP8ArQDiAP8A/wCuAOIA/wD/AKoA4gD/AP8AqwDiAP8A/wCsAOIA/wD/AK0A4gD/AP8ArgDSAP8A/w-
> +AD4APgA+AD4-
> +AD4APgA+AD4- Oh well, never mind.
> +AD4APgA+-
> +AD4APgA+- Firefox, on Windows, does indeed render the middle text in
> +AD4APgA+- http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin.talk/3877 (link to the post I
> +AD4APgA+- am replying to) in +ACI-correct+ACI- direction. So it +ACo-does+ACo- work (yes, UTF8 is
> +AD4APgA+- required).
> +AD4APg-
> +AD4APg- My FF doesn't show anything unusual at that page. What version are you
> +AD4APg- using?
> +AD4-
> +AD4- You need UTF-8 encoding (View-+AD4-Character Encoding-+AD4-Unicode (UTF-8)).
>
> It picked that automatically anyway. No, it's because I've tried a 1.0.x and a 1.5.x series FF and Matthew's got 2.x
Yes, I used 2.x too.
> +AD4- OTOH, the Cygwin list web archives seem to be doing some encoding
> +AD4- translation of their own, as that character looks like a sequence of +ACI-a+ACI-s
> +AD4- with circumflexes.
>
> Every time we quote it in a reply, it gets more and more mangled. I
> can hardly wait to see what it does next. (Now setting encoding of this
> mail to UTF-7 for extra mungetastic fun+ACE-)
Ok, I'll bite. BTW, "+ACE" seems to indicate a colon... :-) Oh, what
wonders...
Igor
P.S. We're also accumulating "RE"s...
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