Origin of this?

[Terry Pinnell]

Could someone please remind me of the likely source of emails that Agent
displays like this?

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I have presents and cards ready for Tuesday. Can you please let me know if y=
ou won=E2=80=99t be at the tasting on Tuesday and I will make sure your name=
s are on the cards.=20
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The header includes:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

Using 'Message|Launch in browser' opens it in my text editor.


Terry

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

Post by Terry Pinnell
Could someone please remind me of the likely source of emails that Agent
displays like this?
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I have presents and cards ready for Tuesday. Can you please let me know if y=
ou won=E2=80=99t be at the tasting on Tuesday and I will make sure your name=
s are on the cards.=20
--------------------
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

Does any header include "quoted-printable"?

=20 is, I believe, an enforced space character; from Wikipedia
"""
ASCII tab and space characters, decimal values 9 and 32, may be represented
by themselves, except if these characters would appear at the end of the
encoded line. In that case, they would need to be escaped as =09 (tab) or
=20 (space), or be followed by a = (soft line break) as the last character
of the encoded line.
"""

A line ending in just = means a line break was inserted to fit SMTP
standards, and is supposed to be removed when rendering.
"""
Lines of Quoted-Printable encoded data must not be longer than 76
characters. To satisfy this requirement without altering the encoded text,
soft line breaks may be added as desired. A soft line break consists of an
= at the end of an encoded line, and does not appear as a line break in the
decoded text.
"""

No idea what E28099 represents... After all, if the message WAS UTF-8,
quoted printable should not be needed; quoted printable is designed to
embed characters that are NOT in the ASCII printable range (decimal
33-126). In ISO-Latin-1, E2 is an a-circumflex â, 80 and 99 are not
assigned. Windows-1252 code page, E2 is the same, but 80 and 99 are €, ™
respectively.

[Arthur T.]

Post by Dennis Lee Bieber
No idea what E28099 represents... After all, if the message WAS UTF-8,
quoted printable should not be needed; quoted printable is designed to
embed characters that are NOT in the ASCII printable range (decimal
33-126). In ISO-Latin-1, E2 is an a-circumflex â, 80 and 99 are not
assigned. Windows-1252 code page, E2 is the same, but 80 and 99 are €, ™
respectively.

E28099 is a single quote or apostrophe. There are many
multi-character encodings. See some of them at
<http://www.i18nqa.com/debug/utf8-debug.html>.

[Ralph Fox]

Post by Terry Pinnell
Could someone please remind me of the likely source of emails that Agent
displays like this?
--------------------
I have presents and cards ready for Tuesday. Can you please let me know if y=
ou won=E2=80=99t be at the tasting on Tuesday and I will make sure your name=
s are on the cards.=20
--------------------
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Using 'Message|Launch in browser' opens it in my text editor.

Turn off "View >> Display as Raw Message".
Ctrl+R turns this on and off. You may have accidentally pressed Ctrl+R once.


From Forté's Agent Newsreader FAQ:

Why do I see "=" or "=20" signs at the end of many lines in received messages?

<https://web.archive.org/web/20200627063700/http://www.forteinc.com/agent/faq.php#EFFC9EA52494428D85256C7A001EDDEE>

If the Wayback timeline bar covers the top of the FAQ article, you may need to scroll up a bit.