Hi Ken,
The «"» around `Blind-Carbon-Copy' should be \(lq and \(rq
So, in a mostly unrelated note ... I couldn't help noticing that Ralph
used guillemets («») in one of his messages on this thread (way to
push non-US-ASCII characters, Ralph!)
I find they're useful because they're visually distinct from anything
that might look like it should be part of the pipeline, etc.,
I'm quoting. In Vim, the digraphs, entered after Ctrl-K, for them are
`<<' and `>>', so they're readily to hand. And misappropriating them
from the French pleases my Englishness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillemet
Ralph's original note containing the guillemets (Message-Id
<20190214173028.F065921521@orac.inputplus.co.uk>) was text/plain, a
character set of utf-8, and encoded using quoted-printable.
The QP is Mailman's meddling. I gave it
`Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit'.
Valdis was the first reply to that (Message-ID
<22277.1550182604@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>), and HIS email was
text/plain, character set iso-8859-1, and encoded using
quoted-printable. He quoted Ralph's message, and the guillemets were
encoded as =AB and =BB. Which seems correct to me.
Definitely.
Paul Fox replied to Valdis's note (Message-Id
<20190214221828.EC0805184393@grass.foxharp.boston.ma.us>), and THAT
note was text/plain, character set UTF-8, encoded using
quoted-printable ... but it seems like this was the start of where
things went off the rails.
Yes. I'm sure Paul won't mind being blamed. :-)
Further muddying the waters ... when Ralph replied to Mark's email,
those Unicode Replacement Characters somehow got converted back to the
correct guillemets (=C2=AB and =C2=BB). Which means Ralph has perhaps
the most intelligent reply quoting program ever and he should
immediately share it as it would revolutionize AI, or he went back and
manually corrected it when he replied to Mark's note. I'm 50/50 on
which one of those scenarios is more likely.
I fixed it manually when composing in vim. Didn't see the point in
deciding to keep those lines as context and yet mislead by their
content.
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Cheers, Ralph.
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