El 11/06/11 13:07, Scott Ferguson escribió:
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:<snipped>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 asked you to test this because of this: Wheezy, Icedove with utf-8 encoded folder: http://picpaste.com/Pantallazo-fOOZ92HP.png Wheezy, Icedove with iso-8859-1 encoded folder (this is the default): http://picpaste.com/pics/Pantallazo-1-wcCjXhKb.1307792270.pngYou see? I also get the black diamond but *only* when I force a utf-8 encoding for the folder it contains the messages and click on "apply default to all messages in the folder..." :-)
So... what is your default character encoding for the mail folders in Icedove?
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.
Have you tried to load the offending message under Evolution or another MUA? If another e-mail client also loads the wrong character, you may be facing a system locale mess. If Evo loads it fine, then Icedove is the one to blame which ineed was my first suspect ;-)
(put drums here)??
He, he... It was a kind of drum taps announcing an event :-) Greetings, -- Camaleón