![]() ![]() That’s why they’re called “non-printable”. Quoted-printable is one of several encodings used to get around the fact that not all mail software (and in the past, not all network transports) can handle what are called “non-printable” characters, or certain types of non-alphanumeric characters.ĬR and LF, for example, don’t cause anything to be displayed they just “mean something”: the end of a line. In fact, any character can be represented as a three character “=” sequence in quoted-printable. CR, LF, and CRLF are all used to indicate the end of a line of text in plain text emails. “=3D” is, in fact, an equal sign. =0D is a Carriage Return (CR), =0A is a Line Feed (LF), and =0D=0A is a CRLF combination. When you see something like =3D, what you’re seeing is a single character of “quoted-printable” encoding. That’s correct - not all “plain text” is created equal. ![]() The problem is that there’s “plain text” email, and then there’s “plain text” email. You’d think that with plain-text email having been around for as long as it has, issues like this would have been resolved by now. ![]()
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