[wxpython-users] What does "name=3D" do?

[Robin Dunn]

Tim Roberts wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 08:42:21 -0700, Kevin Ollivier 
> <kevin-lists at theolliviers.com> wrote:
>> On Apr 1, 2008, at 7:57 AM, Mike Driscoll wrote:
>>   
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > I keep seeing posts lately that have "name=3D" in their code (or  
>>> > variations thereof).  What is this? I'm not finding much on Google.  
>>> > Can someone give me use cases?
>>>     
>>
>> It's actually just "name", =3D is just something that mail clients add  
>> for some reason. If you look at those messages again, you'll see =3D  
>> all over the place.
>>   
> 
> This is an artifact of using the digest version of the mailing list.
> 
> Many people have their email clients set to send in "quoted-printable" 
> format.  In quoted-printable format, certain special characters are 
> "escaped" to allow them to be sent through 7-bit channels.  If you've 
> ever seen a message where every line ended in =20, that's the escaped 
> version of a space character.
> 
> Because the equal sign is used as the escape character, a standalone = 
> has to be escaped.  The hex value of the = character is 3D, so the 
> escaped character is =3D.
> 
> When you get the messages through the normal mailing list, the header 
> that says "this message is quoted printable" gets sent along, so your 
> mail reader does the right thing.  For the digest, however, all of the 
> individual email headers get stripped out.  The digest is sent as plain 
> text, and as a result we see the escape codes in any messages that were 
> originally quoted-printable.

You can configure your subscription to send you the digests as MIME 
attachments instead.  IIRC you then still get all the messages in one 
single bundled message, but can view them in your MUA with all the 
normal encodings translated as if they were sent to you directly.


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