Re: More on non-ascii chars in headers
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 10:03:30AM +0200, Eyolf Østrem wrote:
> There was a thread a short while ago about non-ascii characters in the
> "From" name during which I changed my name from Oestrem to Østrem, and
> it works.
> Today, I happened to find one of my own messages in a search of the
> list at http://marc.info/?l=mutt-users, and there, my name appears as:
>
> Eyolf =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D8strem?= <eyolf () oestrem ! com>
>
> Not so nice to look at... Is there still some setting I should
> make/change, or is this down to marc.info's inability to handle
> unicode characters?
Your name appears(including "Ø)" fine on my mutt display. My default
encoding is unicode($LANG=en_US.UTF-8). Of course I cannot be sure for
other "inferior" clients, but this is not the place to ask about outlook
or thunderbird for I assume everyone on this list is using mutt:)
Jiang
>
> Eyolf Østrem/Oestrem/=?iso-8859-1?Q?=D8strem?=
> --
> "The only real way to look younger is not to be born so soon."
> -- Charles Schulz, "Things I've Had to Learn Over and
> Over and Over"