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Re: Character set change

2010-02-08 14:00:59
JW Simpson wrote:
On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 16:58 +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote:
On 2010-02-08 16:46, sreti(_at_)bidmc(_dot_)harvard(_dot_)edu wrote:

[...]
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
MIME-Version: 1.0

Y�\�g���^���*ޱǧ�#&�z׬>� �����,DC�bܩy#Lq
z{^�*.��h��%��,{O}��ݦ���!
:�E�b
I'm pretty certain that garbage is not in "base64".

Another matter is how that garbage got there, of course, seeing
the message passed through several hosts all capable of screwing up
the message...

Definitely not base64 ...
john(_at_)system76-pc:~/sreti$ echo -n "$STRING" | hexdump -C
00000000  59 ef bf bd 5c ef bf bd  67 ef bf bd ef bf bd ef  |Y...\...g.......|
00000010  bf bd 5e 1a ef bf bd ef  bf bd ef bf bd 2a de b1  |..^..........*..|
00000020  c7 a7 ef bf bd 23 12 0e  26 ef bf bd 7a d7 ac 3e  |.....#..&...z..>|
00000030  ef bf bd 20 ef bf bd ef  bf bd ef bf bd ef bf bd  |... ............|
00000040  ef bf bd 2c 44 43 ef bf  bd 62 dc a9 79 23 12 4c  |...,DC...b..y#.L|
00000050  71 0d 0a 7a 7b 5e ef bf  bd 2a 2e ef bf bd ef bf  |q..z{^...*......|
00000060  bd 68 ef bf bd ef bf bd  25 ef bf bd ef bf bd 2c  |.h......%......,|
00000070  7b 4f 7d ef bf bd ef bf  bd dd a6 ef bf bd ef bf  |{O}.............|
00000080  bd ef bf bd 21 0d 0a 3a  ef bf bd 45 ef bf bd 62  |....!..:...E...b|

Heheh, do a google search on "ef bf bd" ...

Hint: U+FFFD ("REPLACEMENT CHARACTER").

--
Ruud


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