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Why are there "=" symbols all over the Epstein emails?
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this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2026
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Mails are often encoded in the "quoted-printable" format. It uses = as an escape character and it is used in different ways. Besides soft line breaks also some special character are encoded using a equal sign, followed by hexadecimal characters. The wiki includes some examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoted-printable
This might explain the replacement.