Re: Charset issue?
Hi Roland,
On Friday, May 4, 2007 at 10:44:00 +1200, Roland Hill wrote:
> I did this [export LANG=en_NZ] and the 'garbled' message is still
> garbled (/264 etc)
So this can mean either that the en_NZ locale is broken or not
installed (it must appear in "locale -a" list), or that Kyle is right
(mislabelled mail). Could you please send me gzipped attached one
iso-8859-1 mail, and one utf-8 from the ahum... garbling sender? ;-)
> Kyle, I tried message-hooks as you suggested, 2 actually to deal with
> utf-8 -> us-ascii and iso-8859-1 -> us-ascii, and all strange
> characters are now question marks.
Those characters are all above 128 (\200 octal), and as such are not
part of US-Ascii. You forced them to be treated as US-Ascii, so Mutt
considers them invalid, and ?-masks them. That's of course not the
wanted result, and is not what Kyle suggested. He suggested to alias
utf-8 -> Latin-1, in the hope the content is really Latin-1 under the
utf-8 label. The said characters do exist in Latin-1 (as in won´t and
¨reply¨).
Bye! Alain.
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