At 23:06 06/05/08, John Sowders wrote:
>THIS--- where did these =20 things get into my e-mails , Please. I 
>have noticed them in other e-mails , and was wondering how and why ?? 
>I'm 82 and not too computer smart-------
>Where else could I look for the answer , as no one has suggested 
>anything that I have altready tried several times, PLEASE???
>Thanks,
>john
>
>>I'm using Win XP-service pack 2  , and Outlook Express for e-mails.
>>My problem is that I cannot get O E to retain the text size (large ) , =
>>and it changes back to=20
>>medium every time I click on another e-mail.
>>Also, I cannot get pages in O E to open in maxium size , and have to =
>>open them maximized manually.
>>Where do I find the place to change the default sizes, as under HELP. =
>>and text size info does not help.
>>Thanks=20
>>  john

Hi John

These equal signs appear in your email because you have "quoted
printable" encoding enabled in your email program ...instead of
"plain text" or "8-bit". (8 bit means the standard 128 ASCI
characters. Note that 2 to the 8th power equals 128.)

     Quoted printable allows for 256 characters, twice as many
     as ASCI.

     Each of Quoted Printable's 128 extended characters is
     represented by an equal sign followed by two hexidecimal
     characters. For example, something like "=XY" where X and Y
     can be any of these 16 characters: 0,1,2,...,9,A,B,C,D,E,F.
     (I put the quotation marks around XY only for emphasis.)

     Lines of quoted-printable encoded data must not be longer
     than 76 characters. To satisfy this requirement without
     altering the encoded text, "soft line breaks" may be added
     as desired. A soft line break consists of "=  " at the end
     of an encoded line. (An equal sign followed by two blanks.
     So the = you see at the end of lines of text are there to
     tell email readers to go to the next line.

     If a real equal sign must be represented, "=3D" is used.
     A space is represented by "=00".

Quoted printable should only be used if you need to use a character
set that includes letters and symbols that aren't present in the
normal English alphabet (for example, letters with accent marks for
foreign languages). There's no need to use quoted printable on
English language mailing lists. If you look at the headers of your
messages and see Quoted-Printable, you should probably change the
setting that enables text-only.

Regards,
Bill

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