Re: [OT] Bad characters on e-mail headers (was iceape 1.0.9 and IPv6 compatibility)
On 10/06/11 00:16, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 13:30 +0000, Camale�n 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:
>From the header:-
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-15"
Mime-Version: 1.0
X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.3
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>
> �
^ That's how Camaleón's name appears as the usually appears as sender
In this case there's four of them (black diamond with white question
mark when viewed as plain text UTF8 (my default viewing setting for this
list)
> �
> �
> �
>
> Has this impact to the header or just to the mail's body?
Just the mail body. When viewed as raw I see (so something is not right
with my settings!), and when viewed in gmail it's different characters
again.
=E4
=F6
=FC
=DF
>
> Those incompatibilities are really annoying.
I can live with the lack of a name in the From field - as there's only
one BlackDiamondQuestion in the debian-users list :-)
It's the occasional email like earlier where his name appears nowhere in
the email - just the symbol. It's easy enough to get lost in threads and
attribute comments to the wrong people without having to workout who the
following is:-
"On 09/06/11 21:41, � wrote:"
>
> Is my header still correct translated?
Yes.
>
> FWIW my Debian install isn't a German install, I chose
>
> Country United Kingdom - en_GB.UTF-8
Country Australia - en_AU.UTF-8
> and just Keymap German
kept the kernel keymap (saving up all my microseconds)
>
> -- Ralf
>
>
I'm further confused now. Camaleón sent me a direct email using Mutt
1.5.18 and UTF8 encoding. The From string in the header was:-
From: =?utf-8?B?Q2FtYWxlw7Nu?= <his@email>
Yet his name is now displayed in the From field in Icedove. I'm
presuming that's coming from my address book or somewhere because I
can't see it in the headers.
Doubly frustrating as I'm convinced it's at least partly my settings -
indecipherable symbols are an occasional problem - but it's consist with
the From string on the list, and it only affects him.
Cheers
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