Subject: Turn off UNIX file type English text?

From: Lee Ann Sakihara <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 1995 03:47:59 GMT

I uploaded a file from Microsoft Word, and it showed up as a file
type of English text instead of ASCII text on our UNIX system.  When
I send this file, to others the TAB is translated to =09, CR/LF shows
up as =20, and the printer's quote is translated to =D5.  Is there
any way to turn off the translation of these characters when I send
the message?

Thanks for any suggestions.
-Lee Ann Sakihara, UH Information Technology Services

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From: Pivo A Zmrzlina <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 07:15:05 -0500 (EST)

Sigh.  My preferred news server is acting up, so I'll have to see how
much of my original reply I can remember...

> any way to turn off the translation of these characters when I send

    Pine 3.92, which should be available in the not-too-distant future,
will allow you to send all these characters without translation if your
setup is configured to meet certain conditions.

    What you see is quoted-printable encoding, which is what Pine now
uses whenever it encounters a few non-ASCII characters in your message. 
In your case, your printer's quote with code 0xD5 is out of the range of
ASCII (characters 0-127 decimal or 0x00 to 0x7F).

    Quoted-printable encoding is intended to preserve characters which
often get munged by mail gateways.  The TAB character is sometimes lost
or converted to a space, which is why you see it as =09.  The =20 which
you see is not a newline, but a space character at the end of the line,
because some mail transport agents do not preserve this space.

    What has triggered Pine to use Q-P encoding is the character
represented as =D5, which in your case is the character for a printer's
quote, but in the ISO 8859-1 codeset, represents an O with tilde, or if
stripped to 7-bit ASCII, shows up as U.  (AHA!!!  That's why I see some
news posts with words such as donUt on this ASCII-only display I use...)
If you can avoid using 8-bit characters such as this, Pine will not
encode your message, so you should probably be using the ' apostrophe
instead.

    Being unfamiliar with Microsoft Word, I will leave it up to someone
else to explain how to either save a document so your character 0xD5 is
converted to the US-ASCII apostrophe, or to convert a MS Word document.

hacker Barry Bouwsma, MIME: <[email-masked]>  ASCII: <[email-masked]>

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