Did anyone else get garbage sent to them (I subscribe to the digest) when these two people posted?
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From: VespertineR vinvangoo@gmail.com
From: “Marc Tompkins” marc.tompkins@gmail.com
They’re both Gmail users too- as I am.
Why would anyone want the good old plain text? We have MIME now. Use it! 
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Mike Driscoll <mdriscoll@co.marshall.ia.us> wrote:
Tony Cappellini wrote:
>
> >>I think Robin just told someone else why this was happening a
> day or two ago. It sounds like either you need to set gmail's
> encoding >>differently or change your digest mode to MIME.
>
> This is odd because I have gotten mails from one of those guys before- and
it was just fine.
> Where do I change the digest mode to mime?
>
> I use the MIME settings because I think it makes it easier to
> respond to individual posts and it got rid of some garbage that
> was showing up due to the encoding on some of the emails.
>
> You can try it and see if it works at least. It's easy to change
> back too!
>
> Mike
>
>
>
You go tohttp://lists.wxwidgets.org/mailman/listinfo/wxpython-users
And enter your subscription email address in the bottom text box and click
the button labeled "Unsubscribe or edit options". Scroll down to the section
labeled "*Get MIME or Plain Text Digests?" *and change it to MIME.That's all there is to it.
Mike
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Marc Tompkins wrote:
When this question first came up I looked at my outgoing settings (remember that Gmail gives you two options: "Unicode (UTF-8)" or "default text encoding"). It _was_ set to "default"; out of curiosity I set it to Unicode. Now Tony is getting garbage... I've set it back to "default", so I hope that resolves any issues.
However, it sounds like _somebody_ isn't handling Unicode properly.
No it is being handled correctly. Base64 encoding is a perfectly legitimate way to encode email messages, especially if they may have non-ascii characters. The problem is that things like some archivers and digest builders don't decode them but just pass the text along unchanged. But when the messages are viewed individually (like what you get if you use the MIME digest option) then there is no problem because the mail program is then able to recognize the message envelope and encoing information and do the Right Thing.
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