From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/75604 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: base64 encoding Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 13:01:56 -0500 Message-ID: <871v4rmdpn.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87sjxhy128.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294250603 31021 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2011 18:03:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 18:03:23 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M23955@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Jan 05 19:03:19 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PaXhc-0002DZ-9h for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:03:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PaXgf-0000pP-Eq; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 12:02:17 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PaXgd-0000pF-Uu for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 12:02:15 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PaXgb-00068c-9d for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 12:02:15 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PaXgZ-0004KU-1a for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:02:11 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PaXgY-0001UI-HR for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:02:10 +0100 Original-Received: from 68-244-238-118.pools.spcsdns.net ([68.244.238.118]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:02:10 +0100 Original-Received: from eric by 68-244-238-118.pools.spcsdns.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:02:10 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 68-244-238-118.pools.spcsdns.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:tdCjFRFb7r1yJ5DhvKG46gbh/tw= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:75604 Archived-At: On Sun, Jan 02 2011, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: > Eric Abrahamsen writes: > >> Does this ring any bells for the encoding gurus out there? > > *looks around* > > It doesn't to me, either. I would guess that the base64 is slightly > invalid, and that Emacs decodes it too strictly. > > Could you forward a complete article and point out where things go wrong? I forwarded the latest email to display the behavior to you off-list, thanks for looking at this! I note that, as soon as it's forwarded, the message is apparently decoded correctly, and all the characters display as they're meant to… Thanks again, Eric