From: Calamitas <calamitates@...>
Date: 2006-08-30T00:55:25+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Mailing list archive

On 8/28/06, darren kirby <bulliver@badcomputer.org> wrote:
> Does anybody have some idea why my posts are getting garbage chars ('=20'
> and '=3D') added on the archive site:
>
> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/211029
>
> It appears to affect only me, and other archives of ruby-talk such as this
> one:
>
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/ruby-talk/3250521
>
> do not have the same issue. I would really like to fix this, but I have no
> clue what may be causing it. Any suggestions are welcome...

Apparently, Kmail sends messages encoded (inappropriately, it seems)
as quoted-printable. This means that certain characters (unprintable
ones, and ones that have the high bit set to 1) are encoded by an
equals sign (=) followed by two hexadecimal digits. I'm not a Kmail
user, so I can't give you a sure way to fix it, but a quick google
search tells me that it may help to tell Kmail to allow 8-bit encoding
for your messages. This may cause problems of its own as some mail
software may have problems with 8-bit characters, but that should be
OK as long as you stick to ASCII which is 7-bit. It may also help if
you could set your char-set to US-ASCII instead of iso-8859-6.

HTH

Peter