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Re: What charset to display this email properly?



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On Friday, November 14 at 09:49 PM, quoth Dave Feustel:
>All I get when pager displays the following message is a lot of /xxx
>codes.

Officially, that's correct. That message is malformed. The content of 
email messages are required to be US-ASCII unless otherwise specified.

That said, mutt can attempt to *guess* what the right character set 
is. Now, I don't know much about Korean, so I can't attempt to render 
it and then decide if the result is gibberish or not, but judging by 
the From header, my guess would be that the body of the email is 
probably encoded in EUC-KR (or possibly even windows-949). You can try 
adding that to your $assumed_charset list.

A word of caution: adding EUC-KR to the $assumed_charset list can 
prevent mutt from correctly guessing malformed emails with Western 
character sets (it may incorrectly guess that messages are in EUC-KR). 
So, if you don't usually get Korean email, that may not be something 
you want to do. Then again, if you do sometimes get Korean email, 
adding EUC-KR to your $assumed_charset list will probably be a good 
thing. If you decide to add it to your configuration, I *think* you 
probably want to add it to the *end* of the $assumed_charset list.

~Kyle
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