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

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 03:01:36 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:

> On 11/06/11 01:02, � wrote:

>> 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.

Sure they tell me. After looking into them in my cache I've seen that all 
those were sent by me using Mutt :-)
 
>> 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...

Scott, let's see if this works: open Icedove and create a new folder 
(name it "test" or "damn black diamond", at your wish...). Then copy here 
(do not move but copy as we don't want to mangle nor lose your e-mails) a 
bunch of my e-mails that show the bad character.

Then right-click over that folder and select "Properties". In the first 
tab you will find an option for character encoding. If it is set to 
"utf-8" change it to "iso-8859-1" (or viceversa, if it is set to 
"iso-8859-1" set it to "utf-8"). Check "[x] Apply the default..." and 
click "Accept" or "OK".

(put drums here)

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón