From: Jose Manuel Lopez-Cepero <sigma AT ctv DOT es>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: =3D?
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 1997 21:00:07 +0100
Organization: Unisource Espana NEWS SERVER
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hi!

Paul Derbyshire wrote:
> 
> I've noticed about one in thirty posts to this newsgroup seems to have
> weird things like "=3D" and "=20" in it, making it hard to read. Most
> postings don't. What causes this and can it be filtered out?

well this is not possibly the right place (this is about C, not
junk :-)) but in short they are extended characters i.e. we in Spain
use accents over letters; since they don't fit on the 7bit set they
are translated the way you see. To remove them use another news reader
:-), because some support them and others don't (Netscape 3.0 supports
them, but Free Agent doesn't AFAIK)

bye
 
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