| From: Kevin Cozens via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | On 2022-01-03 1:50 p.m., Alan Heighway via talk wrote: | > *Speaker:* Chris Sullivan | > *Topic:* Radio Direction Finding with the Raspberry Pi | | Why does this message have a capital A with an upside down v on top of it | after every word?? Great question. Your message contains quoted text. It sure has odd stuff: The first quoted line is:
*Speaker:* Chris\303\202\302\240Sullivan
The \ followed by three octal digits represents a byte with the high bit on. In ISO 8859-1, these mean: \303 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH TILDE \202 invalid [in Control Character range] \302 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX] \240 NO-BREAK SPACE That's nowhere in the copy of the announcement that I received. That text comes in two forms within the original mailed announcement: - plain text, in UTF-8, but with no bytes with the high bit on. So plain ASCII. Looks simple and fine. - HTML, in quoted-printable UTF-8. This is where the problem lies Here's the second line in the raw mail: <div dir=3D"ltr"><div style=3D"color:rgb(46,46,46);line-height:19px;white-s= pace:pre"><div style=3D""><font face=3D"arial, sans-serif" style=3D"" size= =3D"4"><b style=3D"">Speaker:</b> Chris=C2=A0Sullivan</font></div><div styl= e=3D""><font face=3D"arial, sans-serif" size=3D"4"><b>Topic:</b>=C2=A0Radio= Getting rid of the quoted printable bits (= stuff) and adding harmless line breaks: <div dir="ltr"> <div style="color:rgb(46,46,46);line-height:19px;white-space:pre"> <div style=""> <font face="arial, sans-serif" style="" size="4"> <b style=""> Speaker:</b> Chris=C2=A0Sullivan</font> </div><div style=""> =C2=A0 is one character in UTF-8. 1100 0010 1010 0000 It stands for UNICODE 1010 0000 which is Non-breaking space. SUMMARY: The original message looks OK to me. Your MUA or maybe MTA have probably screwed up. Barracuda? Thunderbird?