[Sussex] HDDs

[John D.]

On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 16:29 +0000, Steve Dobson wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 03:51:34PM +0000, John D. wrote:
> > I know that theres loads of characters that I might not have seen, in
> > the myriad of languages that you may have installed, but what on earth
> > is this one Steve?????
> > 
> > On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 09:58 +0000, Steve Dobson wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > ' 
> > </snip>
> > 
> > 
> > And that's hoping that it's gonna appear in the text, but just in case,
> > an apostrophe followed by a square box that appears to contain 00 over
> > 1B.
> > 
> > or
> > 
> > Is it just an unusual character that you've used and just doesn't appear
> > in the character set that I've got configured (and it's just thrown up a
> > bit of a garble)??
> 
> John, you have found a question that I have no idea how to answer :-)
> 
> You description "a square box that appears to contain 00 over 1B" is
> more like something I see in Firefox when it is trying to render something
> in a font that I don't have (at least I am guessing that what is happening).
> 
> For e-mails I use mutt(1) with vi(1) as the configured editor.  This should
> generate 7-bit ASCII e-mails.  When writing the e-mail you are replying to 
> I did cut and past the output of "fdisk -l" and I may have introduced some
> odd characters at that point.  I've looked at the post and I can't see any,
> and with your snippage of my post so heavy I can tell where the quote
> came from.
> 
> I've have looked at a HEX and character dump of this reply, which contains
> the string "'^[ " as your quote from me.  The "^[" is in fact one character
> in vi(1) and represents the ESCAPE character but this is followed by a
> SPACE.  I can't find any ESCAPE in my copy of the post, so where it came
> from I'm completely at a lost.
> 
> My best guess, and a guess is *not* an answer, is that ESCAPE is being
> interpritted by your mail readers as the start of a special character and
> is doing it's best to render the random cr*p that follows.  I did have a
> look for the ESCAPE character in my original posting but as I can't find
> it I have no idea where you got it from.
> 

Spooky!

and theres me having just mastered an easy ripping CD's technique and
recording "The Exorcist" from Sky!

Perhaps I've finally arrived in the twilight zone :-P

regards

John D.
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