-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/7/10 01:21 , Nathan Howell wrote:
The way I've seen it done before was to: - calculate the size of the body in quoted-printable and base64 encoding - select the smaller encoded form of the two
quoted-printable is fairly human readable. This strategy also works for encoding headers, particularly Subject: lines (substituting q-encoding for qp).
"Quoted-Printable: a standard for mangling Internet messages Quoted-Unreadable: the result of applying said standard Unquoted-Unprintable: the comments from the recipients of the above" (me, in alt.sysadmin.recovery. I'm not sure how someone converted "Brandon S Allbery KF8NH" into "bf8" but that's the universal attribution.) - -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkz+87kACgkQIn7hlCsL25U+FQCgzV+47Rl5KB7ZreKMyRx4kDhb 6kMAmgJy8TW0omQyDuSMp5oaYOctnSDh =Si8I -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----