Re: [OT] Bad characters on e-mail headers (was iceape 1.0.9 and IPv6 compatibility)
On 11/06/11 03:57, � "the dark oracle" wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 03:01:36 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
>
>> On 11/06/11 01:02, � "the dark oracle" wrote:
>
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> Scott, let's see if this works: open Icedove and create a new folder
> (name it "test" or "the dark oracle", 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".
I tried that, and most of the available character encodings - none fixed
all of the weird characters. I also tried with "Apply default to all
messages in the folder (individual message character encoding settings
and auto-detection will be ignored)" unselected.
I'm wondering if my use of localepurge and only the one locale
LANG="en_AU.UTF-8" LANGUAGE="en_AU:en" might be part of the problem.
To that end I'm reading up on locales and character encoding in Debian -
I'll then try a few variations in a VirtualBox machine, including trying
another email agent. It'll probably take a couple of days to find the
time - but I'll post my results when I resolve the issue.
Thanks for your suggestions.
>
> (put drums here)
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> Greetings,
>
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