Re: Mutt and accents
Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
So all of this is fine and lovely...but something's going wrong when I
send out the email. My friend is getting Z with a ^ instead of accented
characters when he tries to read my mail. I can read his mail with no
problems though (i.e. my mail with my accents quoting his mail with his
accents works perfectly). As best I can figure out there may be a problem
with the fact that I'm sending:
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
whereas my friend's email gets sent through as:
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Is that the problem, or does the problem lie somewhere else?
I don't know how to do it, but those are not the problem. Those deal
with transmission of the already-existing data across the Internet and
there is no significant difference between them.
My accented characters look like this: Ú é á î ç (etc). That should be e`, eŽ,
aÂŽ, i^ c,.
Yeah shure. Both look like garbage here:-)
Send yourself a cc (if you haven't done so already), and save one of
yours and one of his to disk.
Check the Content-Type: header.
Use xxd to dump both out in hex and char::
summer@Dolphin:~$ xxd Mutt\ and\ accents.eml | head
0000000: 5265 7475 726e 2d50 6174 683a 203c 626f Return-Path: <bo
0000010: 756e 6365 2d64 6562 6961 6e2d 7573 6572 unce-debian-user
0000020: 3d64 6562 6961 6e3d 636f 6d70 7574 6572 =debian=computer
0000030: 6461 7461 7361 6665 2e63 6f6d 2e61 7540 datasafe.com.au@
0000040: 6c69 7374 732e 6465 6269 616e 2e6f 7267 lists.debian.org
Instead of piping into head which I did to get just a snipped, use less
so you can search. Note that you cannot search for long strings of
recognisable text, and even short strings may break across lines.
Here is what you said:
0001130: 206c 696b 6520 7468 6973 3a20 c3a8 20c3 like this: .. .
0001140: a920 c3a1 20c3 ae20 c3a7 2028 6574 6329 . .. .. .. (etc)
0001150: 2e20 5468 6174 2073 686f 756c 6420 6265 . That should be
0001160: 2065 602c 2065 c2b4 2c0a 61c2 b42c 2069 e`, e..,.a.., i
0001170: 5e20 632c 2e20 0a0a 4927 6d20 6e6f 7420 ^ c,. ..I'm not
If you can get the same representation of the accented characters your
friend, and your headers are corrent then your friend should be able to
understand what you say without getting the giggles:-)
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Some years ago, my eldest daughter typed her German assignments on a
peecee running DOS and, probably, WordStar 2000 Professional, using a US
keyboard. She got all those funny German characters using the ALT key
and numeric keypad to type the decimal codes off a chart we had.
She got good marks:-))
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Cheers
John
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