Re: @ SCOS Message Format ?

On 24/02/2025 11:44, Richard Harnden wrote:

On 24/02/2025 11:18, Richard Heathfield wrote:

On 24/02/2025 10:45, Richard Harnden wrote:

On 24/02/2025 10:28, Richard Heathfield wrote:

On 24/02/2025 10:17, Richard Harnden wrote:

On 24/02/2025 09:51, David Entwistle wrote:

On Sun, 23 Feb 2025 10:55:41 +0000, Richard Heathfield wrote:
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I did. I found no articles under your name in the current feed for that
group.
I have found nothing of the kind in that group.
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Oh dear. Stephan found them. Perhaps your reader. ;)
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they should start at:
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Subject: Character Test
Message-ID: <vpeakb$cgsc$1@dont-email.me>

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I think you said uk.telecom.  That is uk.test :)

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That would certainly explain it. Test groups tend to be huge. Let David post here if he wants us to read his examples.
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That one isn't.

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Okay. Found them.
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Anyway, in my thunderbird: x^2 superscripts, x ^ 2 does not.

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In mine, neither do.
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x^2 (x hat 2) is perfectly valid C code, so superscripting it wrongly changes its meaning.
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Given this input:
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32   ^  ^ *
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126 ~ ^~ ^~*
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scos2 e 98 76 gives this output:

 You don't need the e/d flag, just negate the numbers.

I prefer the flags, as they're easier to remember.

One thing that is mildly annoying: if the encoded line of text happens to start with a "> ", then thunderbird thinks its quoted text.

Which doesn't matter as long as Thunderbird correctly renders quoted text as > quoted text instead of playing silly buggers with coloured bars.
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