What does "Convert ... upon sending" mean?

Cameron Simpson cs at cskk.id.au
Mon Apr 22 05:53:34 UTC 2019


On 21Apr2019 23:18, Paul Gilmartin <PaulGBoulder at aim.com> wrote:
>On 2019-04-21, at 19:53:04, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>>> ...
>>> and the content is definitely not Cyrillic:
>>>       0  16  32  48  64  80  96 112 128 144 160 176 192 208 224 240
>>>       0  10  20  30  40  50  60  70  80  90  a0  b0  c0  d0  e0  f0
>>> 0  0                       &   -   �   �   �   �   �   {   }   \   0
>>> 1  1                   �   �   /   �   a   j   ~   �   A   J      1
>>> 2  2                   �   �   �   �   b   k   s   �   B   K   S   2
>>> 3  3                   �   �   �   �   c   l   t   �   C   L   T   3
>>
>> How are those listings obtained? Might the thing presenting those listings be interpreting the iso8859-5 data as the local character encoding and thus misrendering?
>>
>They're the Unicode "Replacement Character":
>    https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/fffd/index.htm
>    HTML Entity (hex)	&#xfffd;
>    UTF-8 (hex)	0xEF 0xBF 0xBD (efbfbd)

That wasn't what I was getting at :-(

Is the listing above the content of the attachment? Or the result of 
some dump tool?

Anything displayed on the terminal has been through various translations 
(including the terminal itself), and I was wondering if you were looking 
at your two outputs via different mechanisms.

But your other post suggests you've narrowed the issue to the AOL SMTP 
service, which surprises me - it shouldn't be mucking with the message 
internals at all. Of course, I'm using the word "should" here :-)

Can you deliver the same message attachments through 2 SMTP services 
(AOL and another) and then diff what you receive? Or if AOL is your 
email service, send the same message to 2 addresses - one AOL and one 
not  - and diff the two messages on receipt? I mean an actual command line 
diff of the raw messages. It should isolate the nature of the message 
mangling if it is occuring.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>


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