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"Todd Lehman" <todd@lugnet.com> writes:
> In lugnet.admin.suggestions, William R. Ward writes:
> > [...]
> > LUGNET should detect this and convert the =NN codes to the appropriate
> > characters (NN is the hexadecimal value for the encoded characters).
>
> Heh heh, funny you should mention that... Last night I was just thinking
> about this again and am 98% ready to deploy a fix. I've really noticed the
> increase in these posts lately too (especially coming in through the
> News-by-Mail gateways).
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> A which back, Dan Boger contributed a Perl5 script which does the conversion
> to 8bit content transfer encoding. We did a bunch of regression testing,
> feeding it old article data, but then it fell between the cracks. The open
> issue is what to do with lines greater than 80 columns... The
> quoted-printable transfer encoding decodes to some pretty nasty long lines
> in some cases. I'm tempted to simply word-wrap lines that don't begin with '>'.
I think s/=$/\n/ would be adequate for that case. You could always
improve it later.
--Bill.
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William R Ward bill@wards.net http://www.wards.net/~bill/
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