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



On 11/06/11 01:02, � wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 22:46:12 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> 
>> On 10/06/11 20:46, � wrote:
> 
> (...)
> 
<snipped>
> Wow... I look horrible 8:-)

Aw, I dunno - looks classier that the symbol used by the artist formerly
know as... ;-p

> 
> But how about the fourth of the snapshots? It seems to display the name 
> just right.

Yes - but they're the only ones from you this year that do, which is why
I showed them. Hoping the dates might mean something to you.

>  
>>> There has to be another mailing list users with accented characters in
>>> their names. Make a quick search on your MUA archive to check if
>>> experience the same. I've found some :-)
>>
>> Visual (not quick) check shows the following (from this years posts)
>> that display fine:-
> 
> (...)
> 
> Okay, then we have another clue that may help to solve the mystery. It 
> seems the problem presents with "iso-8859-1" but "utf-8" is fine. Now I 
> have to see why my posts are enconding with iso in the "From:" field 
> instead utf8 :-?

Nope. It's still my problem. :-(
I'm currently moving my music collection and experiencing a similar
problem. The music is there (see pic) but the dodgy characters mean it's
not seen. Fortunately Amarok has no trouble reading the weird
characters. After years of avoiding learning character encoding and
locales I may have to bite the bullet...

Cheers


-- 
Tuttle? His name's Buttle.
There must be some mistake.
Mistake? [Chuckles]
We don't make mistakes.

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