Re: uniqcomp.pm - Working for others?

["Robert Holmgren" holmgren@xxxxxxxx]

** Reply to message from John  on Mon, 14 Nov 2005 08:29:12
+0100

John:

You were right. Damn! I just didn't digest this msg
of yours, in part because I don't have the software
to try to replicate it (no Tbird). But today David Auerbach sent me
a screenshot of incoming XPLnCODE under Apple Mail, and
damned if it wasn't just what you described: substitution
of the "quotation convention" right-bracket (dare I write it
here? the ">" char) with a "| " bar+spacechar.

Now, why would they do that, and also why make that assumption
about the use of this character?? What's wrong with
the ">" convention as-is? Grrrr! Anyway future ENCODEings
from me will always replace ">" in column zero with "{062}",
which has the same meaning but should prevent Tbird and Apple
Mail and other GUI mail clients from pulling this stunt.
They are too bloody smart for their own good, those mailers.

Thanks again.

R.


> I don't know which mailers people are using and
> I'm aware that this problem isn't the same as the
> one you mention, but Thunderbird regularly gives
> problems when > quoting characters fall at the
> start or end of a line of code. On screen, it
> replaces them with the coloured vertical bars it
> uses for quoting text and when one copies and
> pastes that code, odd things happen.

> I've searched for an example and this may be one:

> in your clip, Robert, which starts:
> {{;5translate}} Translate any old$ in S/G
> 50[In/Out] into new

> the bottom 2 lines after copying and pasting from
> TB into a text editor come out as:

> <}SX57,@UPR({<}IS57{>}){>}{<}EI{>}{<}SX50,{<}IS58{>}+{<}IS57{
>
> >>}+{<}IS60{>}{>}{<}EI{>}{<}LBC{>}{002}[cr|lf][cr|lf]

> i.e. there's a spurious blank line followed by a
> line which starts with 2 `>' (if TB doesn't mangle
> it a bit more in the sending).

> Here presumably it's the angle brackets causing
> the problem.

> John

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