Re: Model Rail - Gem Kit

On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 09:50:44 -0800, Larry Blanchard put finger to
keyboard and typed:

Larry Blanchard wrote:
On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 02:51:29 -0600, beamends wrote:

Has anyone on this group experienced similar blank message bodies?

First one just now - but as a Firefox/Ubuntu user I've not seen this
before. Just had a look on the Risc-OS machine and it's the same, so it
looks like Google group issue of some sort.

Thank you! Now I have some indication it's not just me :-).

OK - I checked using Thunderbird, still under Linux. It displays the
aforementioned blank message just fine. But when I look at the message
source I see strange "=" signs in the quoted text. They do not exist in
the post being quoted, Google has added them. I don't know if that's
the source of the problem, but it seems likely.

Those strange "=" signs are there because Google uses quoted-printable
when quoting posts that are originally sent using format=flowed to
allow for dynamic wrapping. So it's not a bug, as such, it's a
configuration mismatch between their system and yours. That would
almost certainly be the case on older systems such as RiscOS, which
probably can't cope with newer standards such as QP and breaks when it
encounters something it can't display.

I'm surprised it's happening using Thunderbird on Linix, though, as
that ought to be compatible with it. You may find that you've got
something set in the options somewhere that's not compatible with QP,
possibly the default character set for incoming mail and news -
looking at the headers of your post, you're using utf-8 while GG posts
all use ISO-8859-1. If you try using ISO-8859-1 yourself, the problem
may go away.

Mark
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