DJA wrote:
> [Replying to Gus only to grab the text described in my question.]
>
> Gus Wirth wrote:
>> N�stor wrote:
>
> I don't know if anyone else will see this as I see it, but the name
> above shows as "N,stor" in my email (Thunderbird). I assume that it
> should be "N'stor"?
>
> I see this quite often, although not consistently (or at least I have
> not detected a pattern) in emails I receive. What causes the apparent
> substitution of a "," for a "'"? The language setting on MTB is
> (Unicode) UTF-8.
>
His name has an e-acute for the second letter. It shows fine in my
thunderbird. Normal t'bird behavion (I believe) is to reply with utf_8
encoding if quoted text contains any non-ascii. N's original email in
this thread arrived as
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I guess gmail is what determines that format and header lines.
Now when Gus replied, his email arrived as
User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Other things seen from-time-to-time are:
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
and so on
I can't say I understand the subtleties of content-transfer encoding,
but t'bird
edit > preferences > general > composition
has an option
"For messages that contain 8-bit characters,
use "quoted printable" mime encoding"
Mine is not checked.
then there's
edit > preferences > display > fonts and encodings < fonts
which on my t'bird has
outgoing: utf_8
incoming: utf_8
unchecked: apply default..to all incoming
unchecked: use default..in all replies
The end result of the last part, I think, is that _my_ t'bird replies in
the senders encoding in preference to using my default.
Now, finally ;-) getting back to your question,
Your t'bird seems to not understand the latin-1 e-acute that was in N's
original or G's reply.
So:
what is your locale
what is your t'bird settings for
edit > preferences > display > fonts and encodings < fonts
hmmm, maybe it's your
User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070530)
that's getting confused? It's reading
and inserting in your reply the utf8 sequence {ef,bf,bd}
>From gucharmap:"specials"
"""
U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER
General Character Properties
Unicode category: Symbol, Other
Various Useful Representations
UTF-8: 0xEF 0xBF 0xBD
UTF-16: 0xFFFD
C octal escaped UTF-8: \357\277\275
XML decimal entity: �
Annotations and Cross References
Notes:
• used to replace an incoming character whose value is unknown or
unrepresentable in Unicode
"""
Regards,
..jim
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