On 15.09.14 10:38, Trent W. Buck wrote:

Wen Lin <vwenlin@gmail.com> writes:

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This usually required with AMD or nVidia <200b>, suggested kernel parameters: <200b>in place of quiet splash <200b>, adding<200b>

acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor

<200b>And it worked after that!

I read this list via gmane, and the above looks weird there: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.luv.general/4108

It looks the same in my newsreader.

At first I thought there were inline multipart MIME objects (e.g. between "parameters:" and "in place of"), but what looks like an underscore in Emacs is apparently a ZERO WIDTH SPACE (0x200B, or ​ in the HTML link above).

Looking at the post in mutt, a whole bunch of those "=E2=80=8B"¹ whatsits occur in both the text/plain and text/html components of the message. Curiously, they are invisible in mutts pager, but five of them appear (in a highlight colour) as "<200b>" in the quoted text above, in vim as I compose this reply. To render them at your end, I've converted each to its 6 character rendering here. There seems to be one immediately before or after every newline terminating a non-blank line - almost. One blank line seems to have caused the whatsit on the "acpi_osi=" line to occur early. My guess is that the text was generated with some sort of M$ product. (So perhaps, as in daily life now, we should be alarmed but not alert.) Erik ¹ That's "= E 2 = 8 0 = 8 B", without spaces, in case mail agents perform contortions on it. -- At the Victorian [era] version of the X Factor, the talent show format was stripped right back to its bare bones. Just six contestants and a stage, each and every man singing his heart out to impress the judges. While carrying a pig. http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-28982145-