Re: Better colorscheme than Solarized?

Spiros Bousbouras <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Oct 2022 10:16:03 +0300
> [email protected] (Otto J. Makela) wrote:
>> Blue-Maned_Hawk <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I'm sorry.  I don't know why Thunderbird is making my messages
>> > not-plain-text, and i don't know how to turn it off.
>> 
>> There are two things: your signature block contains UTF-8 characters,
>> and you have PGP signing enabled.
>> 
>> Your message is however properly formed, and Gnus v5.13 is able to
>> decode it correctly. Apparently slrn/1.0.3 isn't.
>
> My guess is that what's causing problems for some people is that
> Hawk's posts are BASE64 encoded. I don't know why Thunderbird does
> that but there do exist news.software.newsreaders and
> alt.comp.software.newsreaders for such questions.

Indeed; I took it as implied that UTF-8 characters in the signature
block causes this need for encoding, and for some reason base64 gets
selected, instead of the (in this case) more frugal quoted-printable.

Followup-to: alt.comp.software.thunderbird,news.software.newsreaders,alt.comp.software.newsreaders
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