On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 19:19:20 +0200 (EET), Cristian Burneci wrote: > This appears due to the fact 8-bit data is not always allowed in e-mail > headers. This is the way to tell the e-mail client to use the respective > upper ascii chars and the correct encoding. Insight should deal with these > sort of problems (as long as it does the conversion to HTML...)
> I use Pine right now (i'm on a linux box), and Joerg's name appears > written correctly when viewing the message list. No "=?iso.." and the > "o" has two dots above. > Best regards > Cristian Burneci Arachne and insight can handle it just fine. That is, when the charater set information is placed where it is supposed to be. (on the `Content-type' line in the eMail headers) When it is placed on the `from' line. Insight does nothing with it. ----- From: =?iso-8859-1?q?p-planet?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---- Even your message did not correctly identify the character set to be used. ---- Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN --- Where-as, the header of this message (being written in Arachne), will include this line in the headers. ---- Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 --- _____________________________________________________________________ > On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ wrote: >> Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 02:51:59 +00 >> From: "Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: From:=?iso-8859-1?... etc. >> Hi to all... >> sometimes I am wondering who is the sender of this messages? >> Joerg or J�rg is one of them... to print an � in Arachne please use Alt + >> 246 on the nummeric keys. >> The other sender is E.R. from .ar (Argentina?) What accented letters >> there are in his/her name... ??? But there must be a better solution for >> =?iso-8859-1? and the rest. >> Maybe one of you have some use of this list >> This list has been composed to check your caracter set: >> Please disregard the small o's... this is how tabs are shown. >> Best regards, Bastiaan -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm http://www.thispagecannotbedisplayed.com/
