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Re: [OT] Bad characters on e-mail headers (was iceape 1.0.9 and IPv6 compatibility)



On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 16:16:17 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 13:30 +0000, Camaleón wrote:
>> > From: Ralf Mardorf <snipped>
>> > <snipped>
>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" <snipped> Mime-Version: 1.0
>> > X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.3
>> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>> 
>> This one looks right.
> 
> 
> :)
> 
> For this mail I switched to ISO-8859-15 and I'll add the German umlauts
> and another German letter called sz to the body:

It seems the problem is limited to the "From:" header field. But I don't 
see any special character in your name so using "utf-8" or "iso-8859-15" 
in your case shouldn't make any difference :-)
 
> ä
> ö
> ü
> ß
> 
> Has this impact to the header or just to the mail's body?

Dunno. What hapenned between Scott and my posts is very localized, I 
guess... but know I think, I don't know if other mailings list users are 
facing the same problem with my nickname.
 
> Those incompatibilities are really annoying.

Yep, but IMO using an "iso-" encoding is a step backwards ;-( 

(I selected "iso-8859-1" for this e-mail, let's see if Scott sees any 
difference or still the "black diamond" :-) )
 
> Is my header still correct translated?

I see it right.
 
> FWIW my Debian install isn't a German install, I chose
> 
> Country United Kingdom - en_GB.UTF-8
> and just Keymap German

System locale should not affect but MUA encoding selection and the e-mail 
servers involved in posting handling, like Debian mailing list server or 
Gmane (the gateway I use). Both make modifications on the posts to add 
the corresponding headers or e-mail footers so the problem can be here.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón


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