From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 30 19:30:37 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E298337B401 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 19:30:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.87]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 715EA43FAF for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 19:30:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lomion@mac.com) Received: from asmtp01.mac.com (asmtp01-qfe3 [10.13.10.65]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id h2V3UYXl004012 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 19:30:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from mac.com ([68.39.198.236]) by asmtp01.mac.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id HCLGEX00.C7V; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 19:30:33 -0800 Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 22:30:32 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) To: Andrew Boothman From: Larry Sica In-Reply-To: <3E87B2E3.8020108@cream.org> Message-Id: <210A206F-6329-11D7-A14A-000393A335A2@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: spurious characters in cvs-all subject X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 03:30:39 -0000 On Sunday, March 30, 2003, at 10:15 PM, Andrew Boothman wrote: > Dan Langille wrote: > >>>> Anyone else notice the spurious characters in the subject of at >>>> least a couple of commits today (around 13:35:20 PST)? They appear >>>> to have stopped. -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ >>>> >>> What did they look like? >>> >> >> A square box after right after "cvs commit:". I saw it in this >> message: >> >> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=130598+0+current/cvs-all >> > > I noticed them too viewing my mail in Mozilla 1.3b in several commit > messages on cvs-all. They seem to be the standard character that > Mozilla uses when it doesn't know how to render a character as they > turn up in large quantites in 90% of the spam I get..... > > I have no idea why they would be appearing where they are. They > appeared in Martin Blapp's two commits to editors/openoffice-devel and > Akinori Musha's commit to convert/ruby-lv. > Most likely they had a character in there that the mail app couldnt render like mentioned above, i've seen it with non-standard charsets. Odds are they are not using the same charset or a charset your mailer had an issue with... just a wild guess... --Larry