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Re: Subject charset issue



Thus spake dv1445@xxxxxxxxx [09/01/07 @ 14.24.47 -0400]:
> I made all three agree on en_US.UTF-8, and the result was terrible.  Most 
> accented chars still were garbled.  Plus, I sent a test mail to myself with 
> some accented chars, and although they looked fine when I sent it, they were 
> garbled upon receipt (it wasn't slashes and digits, it was UTF?..blah blah).  
> Perhaps my school's IMAP server is using a particular charset.  I have no 
> idea how these things work.

More on this: when I rename an IMAP folder on this school account, instead of 
giving me the original name of the folder, it gives me \xxx\xxx... where the xs 
are digits.  This was always the case; does it mean that I should be using 
UTF-8 on my school account?  Pardon the utter ignorance here.

G