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Re: mangled messages (was: Unpaking Tuple)

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Tim Chase writes:
> On 10/09/12 02:22, Jussi Piitulainen wrote:
> >>> in 682592 20121008 232126 "Prasad, Ramit" wrote:
> > [snip mess]
> >>> How does one unpack this post?  ;-)
> >>
> >> Since that's not the way it arrived here, i have to ask, how do you
> >> get these posts?
> > 
> > I see a carriage return rendered as ^M at the end of every line from
> > Prasad's messages. Other than that, they are well-formatted plain text
> > for me, too.
> > 
> > I guess Prasad's system sends \r\n instead of \n\r (the DOS line-end)
> > and \r\n gets interpreted as a stray \r followed by end-of-line.
> 
> Prasad's system is correctly sending the "right" order (DOS
> line-ends are CR+LF = \r\n, not the other way around).

You are right. I managed to confuse myself about the order of the two
characters while staring on a source that says the opposite of what I
said (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline).

Doubly sorry about the noise (being both off-topic and incorrect).

> However, it might be that there is no CR+LF on the last line, or
> that one line is missing the CR, so your viewer heuristic (vim does
> this) thinks it has Unix NL-only line-endings and shows the ^M on
> all the lines that have the CR.  All for one stray line without.

That doesn't sound robust. The problem is still quite rare for me.

> Prasad's email came through cleanly here (gmane + Thunderbird).

I'm on Gnus in Emacs, probably a few years out of date.

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Unpaking Tuple sajuptpm <sajuptpm@gmail.com> - 2012-10-06 03:09 -0700
  Re: Unpaking Tuple Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2012-10-06 03:27 -0700
    Re: Unpaking Tuple Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-10-06 08:46 -0400
      Re: Unpaking Tuple Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-10-06 15:08 +0000
        Re: Unpaking Tuple Thomas Bach <thbach@students.uni-mainz.de> - 2012-10-08 23:45 +0200
        RE: Unpaking Tuple "Prasad, Ramit" <ramit.prasad@jpmorgan.com> - 2012-10-08 22:21 +0000
          Re: RE: Unpaking Tuple Bob Martin <bob.martin@excite.com> - 2012-10-09 07:07 +0100
            Re: Unpaking Tuple Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-10-09 02:29 -0400
              Re: Unpaking Tuple Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2012-10-09 10:22 +0300
                Re: mangled messages (was: Unpaking Tuple) Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2012-10-09 05:48 -0500
                Re: mangled messages (was: Unpaking Tuple) Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2012-10-09 15:05 +0300
                Re: mangled messages Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2012-10-09 09:26 -0500
            Re: Unpaking Tuple Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2012-10-09 14:11 +0000
            RE: RE: Unpaking Tuple "Prasad, Ramit" <ramit.prasad@jpmorgan.com> - 2012-10-09 16:40 +0000
            Re: Unpaking Tuple Robert Miles <robertmiles@teranews.com> - 2012-11-18 19:14 -0600
            Re: Unpaking Tuple Hans Mulder <hansmu@xs4all.nl> - 2012-11-19 02:56 +0100
  Re: Unpaking Tuple woooee <woooee@gmail.com> - 2012-10-07 10:58 -0700
    Re: Unpaking Tuple Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-10-07 16:03 -0400

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