21 Nov
2018
21 Nov
'18
3:34 p.m.
On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 02:24:55PM -0600, John Foust via cctalk wrote:
At 02:03 PM 11/21/2018, ED SHARPE via cctalk wrote:
Myself, under mutt, I see doublespaces. But! I selected some of the
original text from Ed, c-pasted onto another console and...
$ echo "I? sold? him my? extra classic 8? with the" | hexdump -C
00000000 49 c2 a0 20 73 6f 6c 64 c2 a0 20 68 69 6d 20 6d |I.. sold.. him m|
00000010 79 c2 a0 20 65 78 74 72 61 20 63 6c 61 73 73 69 |y.. extra classi|
00000020 63 20 38 c2 a0 20 77 69 74 68 20 74 68 65 0a |c 8.. with the.|
0000002f
See? There are extra "c2 a0" bytes in front of some 0x20 spaces.
I wonder how did they get there?
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Regards,
Tomasz Rola
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I? sold? him my? extra classic 8? with the
plexi covers on it... sn 200? series....? we? kept? sn #18
Side question: What process is turning non-blanking spaces into ISO-8859-1
circumflex-A for you?
I see '?' all throughout your emails.