From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/8428 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mats Löfdahl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: 8 bits in citations (Was: Re: sgnus -> rgnus -> qgnus?) Date: 17 Oct 1996 22:42:29 +0000 Sender: mats@sunbow.space.lockheed.com Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Mats Lofdahl NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035148589 12084 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:16:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:16:29 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 18358 invoked from smtpd); 17 Oct 1996 23:12:57 -0000 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@129.240.64.2) by deanna.miranova.com with SMTP; 17 Oct 1996 23:12:56 -0000 Original-Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (news@sunsite.auc.dk [130.225.51.30]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 00:42:20 +0200 Original-Received: (from news@localhost) by sunsite.auc.dk (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA10798 for ding@ifi.uio.no; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 00:42:17 +0200 (MET DST) Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no Original-Newsgroups: emacs.ding X-Attribution: Mats Original-Lines: 35 X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.2.39/Emacs 19.31 Original-Path: sunbow.space.lockheed.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: sunbow.space.lockheed.com Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:8428 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:8428 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: >=20 > Mats L=F6fdahl writes: > > > ...The "v" is an "=F6" where the eighth bit has been zeroed, and I > > guess the two backslashes is an escape sequence that should tell > > you that that is what has happened. >=20 > Right. I haven't seen that kind of encoding before. What's it > called? As I tried to make apparent, I don't know very much about these things, but I think the only place I've seen it is when my last name has been corrupted in mail headers. Maybe one could write some code that scans the headers (or just the From header?) and replaces all \\ sequences to \\. But I guess one would like some safe-guard against false hits. Or maybe, as Per Abrahamsen pointed out, one should try to encourage people to get software that doesn't do the corrupting in the first place. Anyway, this is really a very small problem that I can easily live with. > The normal 7-bit representation of "L=F6fdahl" (with ISO-646-SE) is > "L|fdahl", I think. Yes, that is what is sometimes called Swedish ASCII. There is a number of swedish people (me included) who read text without problem, where }{|][\ are used for a-ring, a-twodots, o-twodots, A-ring, A-twodots, O-twodots. --=20 Mats L=F6fdahl, Research Scientist -- Temp. phone number: +1 415/424-4= 001 Lockheed Martin, Advanced Technology Center c/o O/H1-12, B/252, 3251 Hanover Street, Palo Alto, CA 94304 lofdahl@sag.space.lockheed.com, mlofdahl@solar.stanford.edu