Re: utf8 file corruption after transmission over email
On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 04:34:14PM -0700, zion wrote:
> Well, I just captured smtp session of loopback interface (same box where
> mutt is running). Here is the relevant part:
> 03d0: 746f 3e38 353c 2f74 6f3e 0d0a 0909 093c to>85</to>.....<
> 03e0: 7265 6164 3e21 d091 e288 9ae2 9591 3c2f read>!п.Б..Б..</
> ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^
> 03f0: 7265 6164 3e0d 0a09 0909 3c77 7269 7465 read>.....<write
>
> As you can see, this character is already messed up before reaching
> server. So, @gmail is not guilty here ;-).
Turns out it's my locale. having this causes the problem:
LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.KOI8-R
if LC_CTYPE is unset, file doesn't get corrupted.