[MlMt] text/plain?

[Sam Hathaway]

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?)

In the terminal, you can use `tr` to fix this:

```
tr '\xA0' ' ' < mymail.txt > mymail.fixed.txt
```

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:

Find: `\x{A0}`
Replace: ` ` <-a single space character
Grep: on

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.

Hope this helps!
-sam

On 6 Apr 2019, at 7:27, 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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