On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 12:04:29AM +0100, Anthony Anson wrote:
The message 200510182340.36448.runlevelten@gmail.com from Ten runlevelten@gmail.com contains these words:
Well each to their own, I say. Can I just say that I'm not sure the empty boxes and spaces a few of us are seeing, are the result of everything being done in a standard manner. :)
You may have a problem that needs sorting.
Could someone *PLEASE* tell me what these empty boxes and spaces are?
As Adam has said they're in your mail, with characters that don't fit in 7 bits. Some mailers show them as a dotted box, some (like mutt) show them as <character code>
I have a suspicion that these are what *YOU* are seeing because sometimes, Ten's messages are dotted with formatting, ZIMACS is quoting it, and your (selective collective 'your') readers are reinterpreting the codes.
It is indeed what we rather than you are seeing; it's a problem with *your* messages.
It's because ZIMACS doesn't indicate what character set it's using when it uses 8bit characters. I'm not especially fussed about this (hey, it's your loss if people can't see some of the characters you type ;), but I brought it up originally because I thought you were beta testing ZIMACS and that such a problem might be of interest to you and something that should be reported back to the developers.
Ten's quoted printable stuff is an entirely different kettle of fish.
J.