Re: Weird character in From: causes mutt to not extract reply address?
Charles Cazabon wrote:
> I'm not a Unicode/locale guru. Is the above valid? I don't think so
> (as I thought all non-ASCII chars in headers had to be encoded), but I
> was hoping for confirmation.
No, it's not valid.
It appears ths strange character is a single byte, octal 346.
Thus, in the sender's intention it probably refers to ISO-8859-1
character 0xE6 or «æ», Latin Small Letter AE.
This is confirmed by a quick Google search for Ostoviæ, which seems to
be a valid Croatian family name. In that case, the subject should
contain =?iso-8859-1?Q?=E6?= in place of the æ.
Now you can:
1. try and get the sender to use a standards-compliant program (yeah...)
2. tell him he'd better put that string in place of the æ by hand; or
3. use a procmail filter to do the substitution yourself.
There might also be some Mutt option to enable a fallback charset for
8-bit headers, I don't know.
Toby
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