From: Toby Hutton (tobyhutton_at_mac.com)
Date: Wed Aug 24 2005 - 15:44:28 PDT
On 25/08/2005, at 5:21 AM, Ian Iverson wrote:
> A while back the list was discussing how ecartis
> converts HTML mail to text and what some of the
> symbols meant. As I have plenty of free time on my
> hands at the moment, I have decided to make a handy
> guide for interested parties which may be used for
> conversion and/or programming purposes. This guide is
> not perfect or complete. Some people may not be able
> to see the characters and they MAY change with
> different fonts.
>
> (space) = %20
> < = %3c
[etc]
These %xx characters are simply the ascii representation of the
character in hexa-decimal. They get encoded *usually* because
they're reserved for markup (especially '<' and '>'.) Therefore
they're unique and you couldn't have different characters represented
by the same number (ie. you seem to list %20 a couple of times
whereas it should represent <space>, <tilde> should be %7E. '%?20'
seems a bit weird though...)
The accented characters aren't represented by ascii though and don't/
can't have a corresponding number in this fashion.
Toby.
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