>                                     The two methods most commonly used
>by mail programs are QUOTED-PRINTABLE and BASE64.
 
        Yes.   But ...
 
>The quoted-printable method takes the all 8-bit characters and turns them
>into and equal sign followed by the upper-case HEX code for the character.
>These are generally in the range =AA to =FF.  Obviously, if you start
>using the = sign as a flag for a coding standard, you will have troble if
>your text has actual = signs in them (such as a password=blahblah
>specification).  So the quoted-printable standard also translates the =
>signs in the original text to =3D.  The idea is that the mail program on
>the receiving end will be MIME-compliant and will understand and decode
>these things without you ever knowing.
 
        Right.   So I encourage folks to avoid QP if possible.
 
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Rick Troth, BMC Software, Inc.  <[log in to unmask]>  <USNMNEWN@IBMMAIL>
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