aspx thread: Off-topic but kind of related, I guess.
In response to your question, Sandeep, the =3D is being inserted because
Fredrick's mail is using the Latin 1 characterset of the ISO 8859 standard
developed by ECMA. iso8859 includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII
character set. The original mail protocol specification (SMTP) in RFC 821
specified the transfer of only 7 bit messages, so 8-bit charsets aren't
strictly safe. Although many mail implementations are now capable of
hanlding 8 bit charsets, some SMTP handling agents are still strictly
conforming to the old RFC 821 and intentionally cut off the 8th bit. Only
if all SMTP agents between mail originator and mail recipient are 8 bit
clean, will messages be transferred correctly.
The Lyris listserver follows the rules for handling this problem by
displaying a header-seperated message, in which instructions are given to
the end-recipient's mail program for reinterpreting the message with the
correct symbols. Unprintable characters in 7-bit coding are catered for
under this methodology by displaying an equals sign, followed by a
hexadecimal value equivalent to the octet for that character. Your
mail-recipient will (hopefully) see the "Quoted-Printable
Content-Transfer-Encoding" header and reinterpret the hex codes back into
the correct characters. In the web interface, however, this isn't done,
and you see the original codes.
In this case, the decimal value 61, for the ASCII character "=" is
interpreted into "3D", it's hex equivalent. So in Fredrick's code "=3D3D"
simply means "==". (in other words, ("=3D3D"=="==")).
At least, that's my understanding of what's going on. Since this topic
could easily turn into a major troll, I've set up a new list called
"mail_protocols", for discussion of this kind of thing. so if anyone wants
to correct or add to what I've written above, then please do so on that
list. Any more messages on this posted here will be transferred to that
list and the contributors will be subscribed to that list (you have been
warned :)). The troll has now left the building.
HTH
Daniel Walker
Wrox Press
From: "Sandeep Arora" <sandeep.arora@w...>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 12:34:07 +0530
Subject: Re: aspx digest: December 02, 2000
Body: This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
------=_NextPart_000_0675_01C05DEE.7ECC6D20
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
-----Original Message-----
From: Fredrik Norm=3DE9n [mailto:fredrik.normen@e...]
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 2:02 AM
To: ASP+
Subject: [aspx] RE: Client side processing?
If you look at the source in IE how would it look like then ?
I have no problem with the JavaScript when I run this example:
<%@ Page Language=3D3D"C#" %>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=3D3D"C#" RUNAT=3D3D"Server">
void Page_Load( Object Sender,EventArgs E )
{
Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("<IMG id=3D3D\"12\"
onclick=3D3D\"NodeClick()\"
WIDTH=3D3D\"16\" SRC=3D3D\"images/bs.gif\"/>"));
}
</SCRIPT>
<html>
<body>
<script language=3D3D"JavaScript">
function NodeClick()
{
var src =3D3D event.srcElement;
alert(src.id);
}
</script>
< /BODY>
< /html>
...kindly lemme know what does '3D' imply in the above code.
.thanx
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