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 -- The calendar's days are numbered! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org