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Subject: 
Re: quoted-printable support
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lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp
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Date: 
Wed, 21 May 2003 05:25:46 GMT
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I have installed a filter so that incoming articles with the header:

   Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

are converted to 8bit encoding.  The header is replaced with:

   Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
   X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by lugnet.com

and the = and =XX encodings are handled.  Long lines are broken at 80
columns except when matching one of the following conditions:

* tabular or columnar data:  /\S\t/  or  /\S\040{3,}/
* numerical data:  /(-?[0-9\.]+ ){6,}/

Applying the filter retroactively resulted in approximately xx,xxx changes.
For the curious, a comprehensive (minus cancelled articles) summary of
differences between old and new appears here:

   http://www.lugnet.com/temp/fixquotedprintable.html.gz  (735 KB)

(It's gzipped because the HTML file is 5.0 MB.)

--Todd



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  quoted-printable support
 
LUGNET does not correctly decode quoted-printable messages on the web interface. For example, look at: (URL) the brickshelf URL with the =3D in it. My newsreader displays it correctly, along with the other funny characters shown at the bottom, (...) (21 years ago, 16-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)

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