[GTALUG] [GTALUG-Announce] January Meeting Reminder

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Kevin Cozens via talk <talk at gtalug.org>

| On 2022-01-03 1:50 p.m., Alan Heighway via talk wrote:
| > *Speaker:* Chris Sullivan
| > *Topic:* Radio Direction Finding with the Raspberry Pi
| 
| Why does this message have a capital A with an upside down v on top of it
| after every word??

Great question.

Your message contains quoted text.  It sure has odd stuff:
The first quoted line is:
> *Speaker:* Chris\303\202\302\240Sullivan

The \ followed by three octal digits represents a byte with the high bit 
on.  In ISO 8859-1, these mean:

\303	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH TILDE
\202	invalid [in Control Character range]
\302	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX]
\240	NO-BREAK SPACE

That's nowhere in the copy of the announcement that I received.

That text comes in two forms within the original mailed announcement:

- plain text, in UTF-8, but with no bytes with the high bit on.  So plain 
  ASCII.  Looks simple and fine.

- HTML, in quoted-printable UTF-8.  This is where the problem lies

Here's the second line in the raw mail:

<div dir=3D"ltr"><div style=3D"color:rgb(46,46,46);line-height:19px;white-s=
pace:pre"><div style=3D""><font face=3D"arial, sans-serif" style=3D"" size=
=3D"4"><b style=3D"">Speaker:</b> Chris=C2=A0Sullivan</font></div><div styl=
e=3D""><font face=3D"arial, sans-serif" size=3D"4"><b>Topic:</b>=C2=A0Radio=

Getting rid of the quoted printable bits (= stuff) and adding harmless line breaks:

<div dir="ltr">
<div style="color:rgb(46,46,46);line-height:19px;white-space:pre">
<div style="">
<font face="arial, sans-serif" style="" size="4">
<b style="">
Speaker:</b>
Chris=C2=A0Sullivan</font>
</div><div style="">

=C2=A0
is one character in UTF-8.
1100 0010
1010 0000

It stands for UNICODE
1010 0000
which is
Non-breaking space.

SUMMARY:

The original message looks OK to me.  Your MUA or maybe MTA have probably screwed up.

Barracuda?  Thunderbird?