Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1581 mails)

[Basil Chupin <blchupin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 18/02/10 00:02, Tejas Guruswamy wrote:
> On 17/02/10 12:44, Basil Chupin wrote:
>   
> > On 17/02/10 23:25, Tejas Guruswamy wrote:
> >   
> >     
> > > Ed's emails have all been UTF-8, the correct encoding. It's
> > > windows-8859-1 that doesn't have east asian char support and is doing
> > > the garbling.
> > > Basil, your email in reply to Ed's UTF-8 was in 8859-1 - I think your TB
> > > isn't set up as you think it is?
> > >
> > > At least this thread is now deserving of the OT label.
> > >     
> > >       
> > Now, isn't this most fascinating!
> >
> > Your headier shows that your message (this one) has:
> >
> > text/plain; charset=windows-1252
> >
> >
> > but my settings in Thunderbird are as per the attached file.
> >     
> windows-1252 is an alias for windows-8859-1 which is what is what I sent
> you / the default, so that makes sense.
>
> My settings in TB appear to be the exact same as yours, Basil. Maybe I
> should try replying to one of Ed's UTF-8 emails and see what happens.
>   

That's a marvellous idea! :-)

(Over the past couple of weeks, or less, there has been a "debate' going
on here about this nonsense about UTF-8 and 8859-1 and weird characters
showing up.

The bottom line to this is that gmail, and some other "mailers", are
using UTF-8. All those who use proppa mailers then see garbage
characters appear in messages.

You can prove this for yourself by simply altering your char. encoding
in Thunderbird from 8859-1 to UTF-8 and instantly see the weirdo chars
show up in messages.)

BC

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