Re: [Evolution] 8 bit characters problem back ?

[Cesar Talon <cesar talon uam es>]

On 10-Dec-2000 Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > HTML mail doesn't show the accented chars correctly, instead it shows
> > chars like: "ó" instead of ó, "í" instead of í, etc. This only happens
> > with HTML mail and composing mail with HTML, however, if you answer a
> > mail as plain text, the chars appears fine.
>
> I just got a thought about what might be causing this but I'm not sure.
> If you could confirm this, it'd be great. All the HTML mail I have with
> 8bit chars (and I don't have much) has a charset set to UTF-8. The chars
> you are seeing suggest that the html editor is getting UTF-8 chars
> instead of whatever the charset should be (iso-8859-1 should work for
> the examples you gave).

I had a look at the headers, and the troubled mails were some Outlook express
ones, that have the multipart encode at the top of the mail. However, the
charset encoding was set to iso-8859-1... really odd. Tonight I'll make further
test with outlook written mails as well as some Messenger-html ones. I'll keep
you informed.
 
Cesar

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Cesar Talon         email: <Cesar Talon <cesar talon uam es>>
Laboratorio de Bajas Temperaturas / Dpto.Física de la Materia condensada
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid / Cantoblanco, E-28049 Madrid
Phone: +34 91 397 4756 /  Fax:   +34 91 397 3961

You definitely intend to start living sometime soon.

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