Re: [Kind of OT] Why's this look like gibberish to me?
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On 04/25/08 21:13, s. keeling wrote:
> Sorry for the thread snatch.
>
> I'm (usually*) reading d-u in slrn via the mail to news gateway
> linux.debian.user. I've seen this before and I'm wondering if there's
> anything I can do about it, other than going utf-8 myself (I've no
> need for it (I think)).
>
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> Bipin Babu <bipinbabu@gmail.com>:
>> ------=_Part_7962_22139442.1209161466138
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
>> Content-Disposition: inline
>>
>> T24gRnJpLCBBcHIgMjUsIDIwMDggYXQgMTo1OCBQTSwgR2lsbGVzIE1vY2VsbGluIDxnaWxsZXMu
>> bW9jZWxsaW5AZnJlZS5mcj4Kd3JvdGU6Cgo+IExlIEZyaWRheSAyNSBBcHJpbCAyMDA4IDE1OjUw
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What's the subject & timestamp of the message? I retain all mails,
so I should be able to find it.
> Nothing in this mail is readable here, other than its headers and
> those Content-* lines.
>
> Is this just another reason for me to ignore posts from gmail, or is
> there anything I can do about it? I'm installing metamail now, but
> that's just a shot in the dark.
>
> Etch, slrn 0.9.8.1pl1. .slrnrc:
>
> set charset isolatin
> compatible_charsets us-ascii,iso-8859-1,iso-8859-15,utf-8
>
> ~/.profile:
>
> export LANG="en_US.ISO-8859-15"
> export LC_COLLATE=C
>
> (0) phreaque /home/keeling_ locale
> LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15
> LC_CTYPE="en_US.ISO-8859-15"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_US.ISO-8859-15"
> LC_TIME="en_US.ISO-8859-15"
> LC_COLLATE=C
> LC_MONETARY="en_US.ISO-8859-15"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_US.ISO-8859-15"
> LC_PAPER="en_US.ISO-8859-15"
> LC_NAME="en_US.ISO-8859-15"
> LC_ADDRESS="en_US.ISO-8859-15"
> LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.ISO-8859-15"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.ISO-8859-15"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.ISO-8859-15"
> LC_ALL=
>
> I have generated utf-8 locales on this thing, but I don't use them (I
> can't read/write/understand anything but English). slrn does well
> with many foreign chars, but every once in a while it hits complete a
> brick wall on some posts, and I haven't been able to nail it down yet.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> * the gateway's currently reporting it's down for maintenance.
- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
We want... a Shrubbery!!
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