Dear GAP Forum,

Dmitrii Pasechnik wrote:

First, I want to apologize for the last message. I had used absolute value
symbols and they appeared to you as =E2=94=82. Had I known this would have
happened, I would have written out "the order of Bn."

I guess that your email client gets this very wrong, because '|' is an ASCII
character (hex value 7C).
You're probably composing your messages in HTML, and then
something weird is happening when a plain text version of your message
is made.

What he sent was the Unicode character hex 2502 ("box drawings light
vertical"), encoded in utf-8, quoted-printable, which many MTAs
today probably cannot decode easily (while the ASCII `|' surely
works for everyone).

Frank

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