Re: [Kind of OT] Why's this look like gibberish to me?
On 26/04/2008, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
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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
> > ----------------------------------
>
> 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.
>
Why are you against switching to UTF-8? Disk space? There really is no
other disadvantage, and even the diskspace arguement doesn't count for
much unless your drive is mostly uncompressed text files.
Dotan Cohen
http://what-is-what.com
http://gibberish.co.il
א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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