Re: code page xlation?
From: B. Vermo (bv@bigblue.no)
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 14:11:30 +0100
In article <4RCozAfHkDrK092yn@garlic.com>,
krlund@garlic.com (Kermit Roger (KR) Lund) wrote:
|When I view a message with an a-ring character in it, using OS/2
|YARN 0.92 with code page 8859-1 specified, the character appears
|as an a-ring. When I look at the message with the editor epm,
|from OS/2, I see the character as the hex string "3d4535", which
|is the hex equivalent for =E5.
| ...
|What function of YARN provides this kind of xlation. What is the
|likely program than inserted the =E5 string into the file for the
|a-ring character in the first place. Can anyone tell me where
|this mapping function is defined or described.
|
The encoding has been done by the transmitting mail reader, which
has documented this by entering quoted-printable as the encoding
in the MIME-compliant header lines, or it has been translated from
8-bit by some intermediate server which needed to transmit it over
a 7-bit link. It is documented in RFC 1521, which is available on
sites which store Internet standards. The master site is Internic,
which has an automatic mail server. Send a mail message to
mailserv@ds.internic.net
with "help" as the message text.
RFC 1522 describes a way to encode characters in header lines,
where only a subset of 7-bit ASCII is allowed regardless of
the transfer encoding for the message body.
The translation back to 8-bit is done by the limited MIME support
in Yarn, and subsequent code translation is turned on in your config file.