Re: e-mail encoding/formatting (was Re: Split-screen mode in mutt?)
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On Saturday, May 13 at 10:58 PM, quoth cga2000:
>> ...what's wrong with that? If, as you say, your encoding was set to
>> "iso-8859-1", that's the correct quoted-printable encoding for
>> "ö". I'm not sure I understand the problem...
>
> Something is indeed very "wrong". My original message did not contain a
> capital "A" with what looks like an oblique umlaut on top, followed by
> something the looks like a capital P facing left instead of right and
> two legs instead of one..! What I had written was the name "Bjoern",
> with the "oe" spelled "o" with an umlaut on top.
- From my perspective, your previous message to the list contained a
correctly encoded o-umlaut (ö), and your current one contains a
correctly encoded A-nyay (Ã) and a correctly encoded paragraph symbol
(¶) in its place. Try viewing your original message in another mail
reader, or try checking it out in the web archives (it should be
correct there). If it got you you in a damaged form, I'm guessing that
something in your mail configuration is destroying correctly encoded
mail.
Now, mutt scripts don't generally modify your email, so I'm going to
guess that the problem isn't mutt. The most likely suspects are either
your MTA, or your procmailrc. To start with, I'd suggest swapping your
procmailrc with a very simple one that does only one thing (deliver to
your inbox) to see if that helps. If it does, you can start adding
things back to your procmailrc from you old procmailrc until you find
out what part of it is destroying your email (hint: you probably only
need to consider procmail recipes that are filter-recipies)
>> Understood. Unfortunately, public mailing lists may be your best
>> option if you're looking for one-stop shopping.
>
> Well this particular one in definitely a great resource.
>
> Thank you very much for your explanations.
Happy to help.
~Kyle
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