Re: Problems with iso-8859-1

[David Haguenauer <ml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Doug Carter <doug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, 2005-11-03 10:44:24 Thu:
> Content-Type: text/plain;
>         charset="iso-8859-1"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> 
> I get incorrectly decoded things like:
>   
>   Edgar\222s contact details are:

This looks a lot like Windows-1255 incorrectly announced as being
ISO-8859-1. Editing the content-type (view attachments, then
<edit-type>, bound to C-e by default) should confirm this; if your
messages display correctly with a charset="windows-1255", then that's
what the problem was.

A permanent fix is to tell your correspondents to go get a capable
MUA. If I remember correctly, there is a Mutt-side workaround, too,
but I'll let others remind us what it is.

-- 
David Haguenauer

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