On 19.03.08 14:37:58, Michael Kjorling wrote: > On 19 Mar 2008 14:14 +0000, by [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris G): > > Here are some incorrect pound signs:- > > > > ��������������������������������������������������������?� > > This shows up to me (on a thoroughly UTF-8 system) as 56 undisplayable > glyps, one question mark, and one more undisplayable glyph. Both > gnome-terminal (cat and nano), gedit, and Emacs (in X) all give the > same result. The binary data as stored in my mail spool is EF BF BD or > U+FFFD "replacement character". According to the GNOME character map > this is "used to replace an incoming character whose value is unknown > or unrepresentable in Unicode". > > So something is mangling your message, and my first guess at a suspect > would be the editor still not understanding UTF-8 properly. Maybe > someone can look at how this came through their end and confirm that > suspicion, to rule out the possibility of my mail server doing > something illicit, but if it is on my end, it's a first for me.
Exactly the same here, the binary data in the mail is not the pound glyph > > Here are some correct (as in correctly encoded as utf-8 by my editor) > > pound signs:- > > > > ������ > > Same as above, except only six U+FFFD. Yeap. I've only had this when giving the editor some data which already was encoded utf-8 and the editor thought its latin1 or some such and re-encoded it (in my case I had a german signature from fortunes added automatically to the template that mutt generates). So maybe the problem really is that the file thats generated by mutt gets input from a program that doesn't output utf-8 (or plain ascii) and the editor just tries its best to somehow convert that stuff into valid utf-8. Andreas -- Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health.
