On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 08:29:48PM -0400, D Richard Felker III wrote:
[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html] On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 05:36:21PM -0500, Jonathan Rogers wrote:
[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html] Corey Hickey wrote:
Jonathan Rogers wrote:
=?iso-8859-1?B?UHJpbWF0ZSBN6XNtZXJv ?= wrote:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ By the way, what's up with that "from" line? I've never seen that happen before. Who's mail client is misconfigured/broken?
Good question; it's pretty funky. ISO 8859-1 one of the most commonly used character sets on the Internet and it certainly doesn't explain all the gibberish.
It looks like when you use =?charset crap in headers, you base64 encode the actual string, since some charsets might use control codes or whatnot. Incredibly ugly....
The first "B" means base64, but it can also be "Q", which means quoted-printable. Very common in Sweden, since people tend to have names with åäö in them. Completely according to the MIME standard. /Basic