Tech info Re: Query: Study of All Languages Using Alphabets

Thu Apr 29 00:32:54 UTC 1999

FYI, in light of the recent MIME discussion,
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If you copy the text from the "begin" to the "end" (make sure there's a carriage
return after the "end") into a plain text file and save it, then uudecode it,
you will get the following:

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<HTML>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Could you please tell me the word for the study

of all languages that use the alphabet in their spelling?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Thank you for your help.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>-Grace Lee</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>

(Obviously this is an HTML version of the email message.) On UNIX machines
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"uuencode" comes from "Unix-to-Unix encode" but is used for more general
transmission.  Note it is not a compression format, in fact it often causes
expansion.  It is merely a transfer encoding which prevents false interpretation
of data as protocol or control sequences.

Isn't computing fun?
Andrea
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Andrea Vine
Sun Internet Mail Server i18n architect
avine at eng.sun.com
Remember: stressed is desserts spelled backwards.