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Originally Posted by Corona688

And they did that by using the wrong quotation mark?

(I will assume the question is not rhetorical.)
No; bakunin is pointing out that perhaps another language might use something that looks like a single quote for something else in their language entirely and was referring to letters instead of single quotes as an example.
As I am lazy, I use the letter u to refer to 'micro' as in uF which is totally wrong but convenient, where as it should be μ for μF .

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mail::mboxparser::mail::body

MboxParser::Mail::Body(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			       MboxParser::Mail::Body(3pm)

NAME

       Mail::MboxParser::Mail::Body - rudimentary mail-body object

SYNOPSIS

	   use Mail::MboxParser;

	   [...]

	   # $msg is a Mail::MboxParser::Mail
	   my $body = $msg->body(0);

	   # or preferably

	   my $body = $msg->body($msg->find_body);

	   for my $line ($body->signature) { print $line, "
" }
	   for my $url ($body->extract_urls(unique => 1)) {
	       print $url->{url}, "
";
	       print $url->{context}, "
";
	   }

DESCRIPTION

       This class represents the body of an email-message.  Since emails can have multiple MIME-parts and each of these parts has a body it is not
       always easy to say which part actually holds the text of the message (if there is any at all).  Mail::MboxParser::Mail::find_body will help
       and suggest a part.

METHODS

       as_string ([strip_sig => 1])
	   Returns the textual representation of the body as one string. Decoding takes place when the mailbox has been opened using the decode =>
	   'BODY' | 'ALL' option.

	   If 'strip_sig' is set to a true value, the signature is stripped from the string.

       as_lines ([strip_sig => 1])
	   Sames as as_string() just that you get an array of lines with newlines attached to each line.

	   NOTE: When the body is actually some encoded binary data (most commonly such a body is base64-encoded), you can still use this method.
	   Then you wont really get proper lines. Instead you get chunks of binary data that you should concatenate as in

	       my $binary = join "", $body->as_lines;

	   If 'strip_sig' is set to a true value, the signature is stripped from the string.

       signature
	   Returns the signature of a message as an array of lines. Trailing newlines are already removed.

	   $body->error returns a string if no signature has been found.

       extract_urls
       extract_urls (unique => 1)
	   Returns an array of hash-refs. Each hash-ref has two fields: 'url' and 'context' where context is the line in which the 'url' appeared.

	   When calling it like $mail->extract_urls(unique => 1), duplicate URLs will be filtered out regardless of the 'context'. That's useful
	   if you just want a list of all URLs that can be found in your mails.

	   $body->error() will return a string if no URLs could be found within the body.

       quotes
	   Returns a hash-ref of array-refs where the hash-keys are the several levels of quotation. Each array-element contains the paragraphs of
	   this quotation-level as one string. Example:

		   my $quotes = $msg->body($msg->find_body)->quotes;
		   print $quotes->{1}->[0], "
";
		   print $quotes->{0}->[0], "
";

	   This should print the first paragraph of the mail-body that has been quoted once and below that the paragraph that supposedly is the
	   reply to this paragraph. Perhaps thus:

		   > I had been trying to work with the CGI module
		   > but I didn't yet fully understand it.

		   Ah, it is tricky. Have you read the CGI-FAQ that
		   comes with the module?

	   Mark that empty lines will not be ignored and are part of the lines contained in the array of $quotes->{0}.

	   So below is a little code-snippet that should, in most cases, restore the first 5 paragraphs (containing quote-level 0 and 1) of an
	   email:

		   for (0 .. 4) {
			   print $quotes->{0}->[$_];
			   print $quotes->{1}->[$_];
		   }

	   Since quotes() considers an empty line between two quotes paragraphs as a paragraph in $quotes->{0}, the paragraphs with one quote and
	   those with zero are balanced. That means:

	   scalar @{$quotes->{0}} - DIFF == scalar @{$quotes->{1}} where DIFF is element of {-1, 0, 1}.

	   Unfortunately, quotes() can up to now only deal with '>' as quotation-marks.

VERSION

       This is version 0.55.

AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT

       Tassilo von Parseval <tassilo.von.parseval@rwth-aachen.de>

       Copyright (c)  2001-2005 Tassilo von Parseval.  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
       terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

perl v5.12.3							    2005-12-08					       MboxParser::Mail::Body(3pm)

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