[MlMt] text/plain?

[Galen Menzel]

Looks like I confused windows-1252 with windows-1251 in some places in 
the message below, but nbsp is 0xa0 in both encodings, and the question 
remains, at what point are those non-breaking spaces being translated 
into `<A0>`. Do they occur in the email you received, or are they 
introduced by the way you are saving the text from the email? Examining 
the contents of the raw `.eml` file is the first step to figuring that 
out.

Best,

Galen

On 6 Apr 2019, at 10:51, Galen Menzel wrote:

> They’re using [Postbox](https://www.postbox-inc.com/).
>
> [windows-1252](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1251) is an 8-bit 
> extended ascii encoding, which Postbox supports.
>
> The character with the `A0` character code in the windows-1251 
> encoding is the [non-breaking 
> space](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-breaking_space). So somewhere 
> along the way the non-breaking spaces are being replaced by `<A0>`.
>
> Does this `<A0>` stuff show up when you view the raw message in 
> MailMate (with ⌥⌘U)?
>
> What happens if you use `less` to view the message’s `.eml` file?
>
> Best,
>
> Galen
>
>
> On 6 Apr 2019, at 4:27, Randy Bush wrote:
>
>> i receive an email
>>
>>     User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; 
>> rv:52.0)
>>      Gecko/20100101 PostboxApp/6.1.13
>>     MIME-Version: 1.0
>>     Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed
>>     Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
>>     Content-Language: en-US
>>
>> the text has funny space characters that i see if i save the text to
>> disk and look at it with less
>>
>>     <A0>0.<A0><A0> flo....: 2.31 2018.11.03
>>
>>      <A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0> 1.<A0><A0> CLIMATE 
>> ACTION
>>      <A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0> * (N)ew 
>> (M)odify (D)elete..: N
>>
>>      <A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0> 2. * NAME OF CLOUD: 
>> cumulus
>>
>> i presume the sender is thunderbird and they have created the text 
>> with
>> some sort of windows encoding on a mac?
>>
>> how can i save the content as vanilla ascii text?
>>
>> randy
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