PDA

View Full Version : [Dixonary] OT: Weird character = binary


Dodi Schultz
June 7th, 2008, 09:54 AM
Bill, your latest message arrived here only as a binary attachment, and
this time I know why. The message:

>> It must have been a Google glitch. When I first tried to send the
>> message, Google told me the page timed out. I refreshed the page,
>> clicked on "send" again and Google reported the message had been
>> posted. Somewhere in there it must have dropped the email link. It
>> could have been a weird timing glitch that will be impossible to
>> reproduce.

There was a little more, and a signature. All well and good. But THEN,
below that there was:

>> On Jun 6, 6:24 pm, "schu... (AT) compuserve (DOT) com" <schu... (AT) compuserve (DOT) com>
>> wrote:

followed by a repeat of my earlier message. (Why does it repeat the
so-to-speak address?) Except that line didn't exactly appear as above.
Between "6:24" and "pm," there wasn't a space as above but a character
inserted--an "a" with an acute accent. That's really weird; why would it do
that? Anyway, that's apparently what turned it into a binary attachment.

New e-mail client?

--Dodi