John Baymore on fri 27 jun 97
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Dear CLAYART'ers,
OK...... anybody got any ideas about WHY my e-mail to the list is suddenly
doing the wired things it is doing? Anyone else on Compuserve got the same
problems?
My messages look fine on my computer, but when it comes through on CLAYART
it looks like the characters have been converted to a code.
If I type a quotation mark, you see this .................. =22
If I type a greater than sign I get this ................. =3E
Less than sign gives this ...............=3C
The dollar sign gives ............ =24
Anyone got some suggestions so that my messages are readable? I am
currently suspecting the Compuserve gateway. Appreciate the help.
Best,
.............................john
John Baymore
River Bend Pottery
22 Riverbend Way
Wilton, NH 03086 USA
603-654-2752
JBaymore=40Compuserve.com
Fred Paget on sat 28 jun 97
There is a good article in Aug 97 MacUser Magazine page 19 by Henry
Bortman that explains in depth exactly why you are getting the =3E etc.
This code is called E-mailian. To summarize the article the e-mail
programs and servers (Compuserve for example) are using a 7 bit code for
the letters and symbols. This is standard on the Internet. There are only
128 combinations in a 7 bit code - enough for all the letters both capital
and lowercase, the numbers and a few basic punctuation marks. Since the
computers we usually use use 8 bit codes giving 256 combinations a lot of
stuff gets coded into the E-mailian code..To make it more fun there are
several different forms of E-mailian and when the server at the other end
does not speak your language it doesn't decode and you get a mess. This is
a heritage from UNIX which uses 7 bit coding.
If you have recently switched servers or e-mail programs that could be a
cause. Eudora and Claris e-mailer are clean.
By the way I thought your post on the Tozan problem was the best yet.
>OK...... anybody got any ideas about WHY my e-mail to the list is suddenly
>doing the weird things it is doing?
>John Baymore
Fred Paget---Mill Valley,CA,USA
Never try, never win!
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