[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > fact is, that the content is hebrew (iso_8859_8 or cp1255) > while the code in the header is iso_8859_1 > it might be the sender fault, but im curious how outlook/express > knows how to handle this issues
It doesn't (know how to handle this issue). When I receive messages that are like this (rarely, but sometimes such messages find their way to my inbox:) OE shows the subject just like you described; in this case "äåãòä çãùä áôåøåí ìîèééì". The output is "wrong" per se (ie. it is not what the sender intended it to be) but still "correct" (because since the message said it was in ISO-8859-1, the recipient (application) really has no reason to doubt the given statement). The problem actually rises because you can configure the (sending) email client and tell it that the message is in "some or another" character set. However, you can't (easily) stop the sender (the actual person writing the message) from inputting characters that don't belong to the said character set. After all; the fact is that 99.9% of the users don't have a slightest clue of what a "character set" even is - they just use the one the client provides them as default. On OE, I seem to recall that that is actually ISO-8859-1, though I can't check, since I don't have a single OE at hand where I haven't tweaked the settings to my own liking :) -- Markku Uttula ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ synalist-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/synalist-public
