[R] [OT] "_" inserted in postings

Patrick Connolly p_connolly at slingshot.co.nz
Tue Sep 8 21:55:19 CEST 2009


On Tue, 08-Sep-2009 at 06:40AM -0400, Duncan Murdoch wrote:


>
> I don't see the underscores in that posting, but I do see this as the  
> last line in the headers:

That's interesting.  I see them using Mutt as well as with Thunderbird.
I bounced the message to a Yahoo account, and the underscores all
appear there too.

In my experience, I usually get those underscores in mail sent from
computers which are used to work in Japanese.  Something to do with
the use of those characters seems to have some unintended consequences.


>
> X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by  
> fisher.stats.uwo.ca id n8898BkC031633
>
> (fisher.stats.uwo.ca is the server that receives my email).
>
> So it looks as though whatever is doing the conversion on your system  
> isn't doing it as well as it should.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
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