Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 22:30:32 -0500 From: Larry Sica <lomion@mac.com> To: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: spurious characters in cvs-all subject Message-ID: <210A206F-6329-11D7-A14A-000393A335A2@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <3E87B2E3.8020108@cream.org>
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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
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