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On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, mankoff wrote:
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>
> On Feb 27, 10:29=A0am, David Fanning <n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> Just a quibble this morning, but with more and more people
>> using Macs, here is something I don't understand. When Mac
>> users post IDL code to this newsgroup, all of the equal signs
>> in the code turn out like "=3D3D" in my news reader (Gravity).
>>
>> I can strip them out easily enough, but it does give me
>> difficulties reading the code in my news reader. Does anyone
>> know why this happens? Should I be setting some property in
>> my news reader to get the proper encoding?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> David
>> --
>> David Fanning, Ph.D.
>> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
>> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming:http://www.dfanning.com/
>> Se****e ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
>
> I have to assume my recent posting is related to this. I have no clue
> about Gravity, but relevant info might be that I cut and pasted from
> Emacs (Aquamacs Emacs.app) into FireFox on OS X Intel.
Using alpine on Fedora, I don't see the problem with the "=3D" sign,
but=20
I do see:
> > Polar Stereographic projection with 71=3DB0S as the latitude of
true=20
scale
> > and 0=3DB0E as the central meridian.
(e.g. the degree symbol, UTF-16: 0x00B0, becomes "=3DB0"). This is
mishandling of "quoted-printable" encoding=20
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoted-printable>.
--=20
George N. White III <aa056@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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