barney wrote:
>I'm trying to find out if this is a bug or just a configuration/prefs
>issue. Somebody I correspond with at work uses Yahoo! mail. A fair
>number of his messages come with a Content-Type: message/rfc822.
>
>Some special characters (extended ASCII set?) display as question marks
>when I see it in the message pane, but show correctly in View Source.
>
>For example, "abcd" (with left and right 'smart' quotes) in the source
>shows as ?abcd? in the message pane.
>
>My prefs for message display are set to the default Western ISO-8859-1,
>but not to apply this on all messages. Is this a bug, or do one of us
>need to change a pref to get these characters to display correctly in my
>mail? I'd rather it was him, not me, of course. :)
>
You can change the View | Character Coding menu setting to Western
(Windows-1252) and you should be able to see the smart quotes. Some
mail msgs lack the charset value in the ContentType header. In such a
case, Mozilla defaults to your default folder charset setting (c.f. View
| Folder Character Coding), which you can set differently for each mail
folder you have. Most users of Western characters use ISO-8859-1 but
some msgs are encoded in Windows-1252. So this type of problems is
unavoidable as long as the charset value is not specified. If there is a
value specified, Mozilla honors it automatically.
If the ContentType says something like "message/rfc822", that does not
tell us anything more than that it is a message following RFD 822
format, which is not saying much.
- Kat
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Katsuhiko Momoi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Web Standards/embedding
Netscape Global Customization Team
