From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/75463 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: base64 encoding Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 17:39:27 -0500 Message-ID: <87sjxhy128.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp-2 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1293581980 17524 80.91.229.12 (29 Dec 2010 00:19:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 00:19:40 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M23814@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Dec 29 01:19:36 2010 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 1PXjlO-0005Wj-CP for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 29 Dec 2010 01:19:34 +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 1PXjkL-0002N4-0Y; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 18:18:29 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PXjkJ-0002Mw-BD for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 18:18:27 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PXjkH-0001w0-BE for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 18:18:27 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PXjkF-0000zo-8e for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 29 Dec 2010 01:18:23 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PXjkE-00054y-6O for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 29 Dec 2010 01:18:22 +0100 Original-Received: from dyn-carl-201-147.dyn.columbia.edu ([160.39.201.147]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2010 01:18:22 +0100 Original-Received: from eric by dyn-carl-201-147.dyn.columbia.edu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2010 01:18:22 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 42 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dyn-carl-201-147.dyn.columbia.edu User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Uij6Dd3GXuXdIMHh4/xAwA/Vq1o= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:75463 Archived-At: I get emails from one particular gmail user where the body of the email is base64 encoded (I've only seen base64 encoded emails from this one person, I'm 99% sure she doesn't know anything about it). Often a few lines or a whole paragraph will be mis-encoded, coming through as gibberish, and then returned to normal. I also use gmail and the same email viewed via the gmail web interface is correctly displayed. In the raw article (both in gnus and via gmail) it looks like this: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- Content-Type: text/plain; charset=GB2312 Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 SGV5LAoKx+vOysTjysfU2rnK0uK2us7Sv6rQxMLwo7/Kx7vysrvKx6OssrvSqr30o6y3tNX9ztK/ --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- And then a huge block of text thus encoded, actually two blocks. These emails are in Chinese, hence the GB2312 encoding. They don't always come through garbled. The last time I noticed this, it happened to the middle section of a paragraph: Cannon$A8x$B2fOB(B?$B;L$(DVy$A"A$Bg[9D$AWJ+#,N$B1Ugk$AZI$B%#$A,R$BIH$A*UbJWJ+6TN$B0M:!Di$A+D$(DZQUK$A,6xN$B0l8H4<$AxK{;XPE8$(D:'(B $A_K{N$B1U$(DW@$Bi9RZ$A,N$BLi9S$A\P$BO:$AMUbJWJ+#,R$BIH$A*K{L$(D02$Ap<$B$6$A/#,>$B!W$(DWC$A{I$B6"=_B`(B?``$BB>$ABh$BE*!$IT@'2f2s?.9p$AK_$BB>2fWL$ARE$B48!$2fITG=6U$AIMUb$BFC$A1p$B7c$A6/$B!$?T4IB>>eMh="$AK5(B $B!HB>$ABh$BE*!$IT@'2f