Posted by George Hester on 09/29/05 02:41

"Perseus" <ComHost-h0001.erase@hccnet.nl> wrote in message
news:27c6QzTuQtaJvipCF=JqfY++1Zv9@4ax.com...
> On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:48:56 +0100, "Paul Blay"
> <ask_me_or_get_spam_trapped@saotome.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >It's got nothing to do with unicode and everything to do with
> >
> >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> >
> >Outlook Express does not apply quote marks in reply to posts in
> >"quoted-printable". http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q168779/
> >Paraphrasing - this is because quoted-printable is intended to support
> >line wrapping and is therefore not readily compatible with the hard
> >carriage return style used by typical posts.
> >
> >Quoted-printable is also not supported at all by several news
> >programs (including Free Agent).
> >
> >If you don't know that quoted-printable is actually doing anything
> >useful for you I suggest you turn that option off.
>
> Paul,
>
> I think an apology on my part is in order, for thanks to your brilliant
> explanation it now becomes clear, what actually caused the quoting
> character problem as experienced by George Hester. Apparently the
> problem was really there, but both of us didn't know exactly where to
> look for a solution.
>
> I've already altered the setting in my Agent news client to use 7bit /
> 8bit encoding. So quoting my scribblings shouldn't be problematic to
> anyone as of now (hopefully).
>
> Thanks a lot Paul for your excellent suggestion, and my apologies to
> George Hester for doubting his initial hunch, that there was something
> wrong with my method of posting to this (non-MIME oriented) ng!
>
> Greetz,
>
> --
> Perseus
>
> E-mail: leave out ".erase" <- mind the dot!
> **
> Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.

That is the encoding Perseus. I may have confused using unicode but I knew
what it was the quoted printable. The reason why I didn't mention it is
because it CAN serve a purpose. If you post with long links that way of
encoding will allow the links not to wrap. I really didn't want to explain
all that because I thought you wouldn't be happy with it. I really do not
care how you post it's just that people after us have trouble determining
where my post begins and yours ends. So actually I don't care just maybe
others might - like hammerer.

--
George Hester
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