If you look at this link you could probably see some of the funny characters you are talking about and I believe that it has to do with the Content-type charset. http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2008/02/23/tomboy-bulk-import-files-with-the-dbus-interface-and-python/
Nestor :-) (this is my linux machine I can't put the accent on the 'e') On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 4:40 AM, Paul G. Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > -- > Paul G. Allen, BSIT/SE > Owner, Sr. Engineer > Random Logic Consulting Services > www.randomlogic.com > > > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list >
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