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<p dir="auto">I don’t think this is an encoding issue. I think it’s an issue with the original source of the text in the email. (It looks like it was possibly copied from a terminal interface of some sort… is that right?)</p>
<p dir="auto">In the terminal, you can use <code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0 0.4em" bgcolor="#F7F7F7">tr</code> to fix this:</p>
<pre style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:5px 5px 5px 5px; margin-left:15px; margin-right:15px; max-width:90vw; overflow-x:auto; padding:5px" bgcolor="#F7F7F7"><code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0" bgcolor="#F7F7F7">tr '\xA0' ' ' < mymail.txt > mymail.fixed.txt
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<p dir="auto">If that’s not your bag, a sufficiently advanced text editor should be able to take care of it. In BBEdit (my editor of choice) this will do suffice:</p>
<p dir="auto">Find: <code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0 0.4em" bgcolor="#F7F7F7">\x{A0}</code><br>
Replace: <code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0 0.4em" bgcolor="#F7F7F7"></code> <-a single space character<br>
Grep: on</p>
<p dir="auto">By the way, the BBEdit command “Zap Gremlins” can take care of all sorts of weird characters for you. I use it habitually when receiving “text” from questionable sources. Other text editors may have similar functionality.</p>
<p dir="auto">Hope this helps!<br>
-sam</p>
<p dir="auto">On 6 Apr 2019, at 7:27, Randy Bush wrote:</p>
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<div style="white-space:normal"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><p dir="auto">i receive an email<br>
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:52.0)<br>
Gecko/20100101 PostboxApp/6.1.13<br>
MIME-Version: 1.0<br>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed<br>
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit<br>
Content-Language: en-US<br>
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the text has funny space characters that i see if i save the text to<br>
disk and look at it with less<br>
<br>
<A0>0.<A0><A0> flo....: 2.31 2018.11.03<br>
<br>
<A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0> 1.<A0><A0> CLIMATE ACTION<br>
<A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0> * (N)ew (M)odify (D)elete..: N<br>
<br>
<A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0> 2. * NAME OF CLOUD: cumulus<br>
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i presume the sender is thunderbird and they have created the text with<br>
some sort of windows encoding on a mac?<br>
<br>
how can i save the content as vanilla ascii text?<br>
<br>
randy<br>
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