<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>>

In the recent recipe for "Chebe-like" bread, there were some
odd characters. Actually these characters show up in many
emails, probably depending on your email settings or which
email server you use.

Now, I am a certified computer geek, and I deal with
stuff like this a lot, so I can give you a couple of hints of what
this is all about. Someone asked that I share some of this knowledge
for those of you that are interested. (For those of you who are
computer geeks too: yes, I'm simplifying and no, this isn't
totally accurate).

First, the server that handles  this list is probably a Linux server,
not running Microsoft Windows. Linux and Unix are great
operating systems, but they handle fonts differently than Windows
does. Every character on a computer is represented by a number.
Some of these numbers everyone agrees will mean a certain letter.
Some of the numbers though, can mean different things depending
on the operating system. So a number like "20" can mean one thing
to Linux, and something else to Windows.

When emails run between two different systems, there is a "conversion"
process that happens. Some of these converters work better
than others. The converter used for this listserver doesn't work
as well as it could.

Anyway, the listserver handles lowercase and uppercase letters,
and numbers, and standard punctuation, just fine. Some characters
though, like the character for one-half or "end of line", it doesn't
handle well. So it converts them into their numeric equivalent.
Of course, this "numeric equivalent" is in hex, so it looks a little weird.

Bottom line: here are a few of the translations of characters
that I've found. For something like a recipe, you can convert them
in the email and come up with something more readable.

=20  means: end of line
=BC means: 1/4
=BD means: 1/2
=BE means: 3/4

The '=' sign means: "this is in hex".
The two characters after it represent a hex number.
But the interpretation depends if you are talking OEM
or Ansi and which font set you are using.

I expect if people send their mails  using "plain text" in gmail
or the equivalent in other mail handlers, they will be converted
ok.


-- 
Heidi Schuppenhauer
www.CabritaSoftware.com

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