James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
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"?
Note in the above quote that my brother's e-mail mangled Nestor's name
(sorry, I don't know h6w to put an e-acute there). Instead of the
e-acute, there is a dark hexagon with a '?' in the center (indicating an
unknown char. coding)
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.
Nor is mine.
then there's
edit > preferences > display > fonts and encodings < fonts
which on my t'bird has
outgoing: utf_8
incoming: utf_8
I am using Western ISO-8859-1 for both.
unchecked: apply default..to all incoming
unchecked: use default..in all replies
Mine are also unchecked.
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.
My T-bird work's fine as well, however, I am running 2.0.14 on Fedora 8.
In addition, if I change the above settings to utf-8, many spam messages
that come into my junk folder have unknown characters in them, whereas
with my current settings they are printed fine (in foreign languages -
Chinese, Russian, etc. - that I don't really care about, but at least I
know that I don't care about them. :)
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
David, update your T-bird!
(Finally, I get to tell him to update something instead of the other way
around!! :D
PGA
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