Replying to Ed's email from my TB does result in a well-formatted UTF-8 email, both in gmail and other providers. I am still curious as to why your reply changed the encoding, given your TB settings are the same as mine, unless UTF-8 is somehow broken on your machine, Basil. On 17/02/10 13:17, Basil Chupin wrote:
Ed's emails have all been UTF-8, the correct encoding.
Why is UTF-8 the correct encoding?
I didn't mean "correct" in an absolute sense, I meant for the content of Ed's email (he used Chinese chars), UTF-8 is the encoding that he sent it in and the one that will display it as intended.
The Mozilla family of FF and TB come installed as per what appears on the openSUSE DVD or CD. The default encoding has been 8859-1.
If I change this to UTF-8 I see garbage.
Yes, 8859-1 (aka windows-1252) is the default on my machine too, no argument there. As to why you see garbage when you switch to UTF-8, It depends what you are trying to view in UTF-8. Maybe what you are trying look at isn't UTF-8, so yes, you might see some bad chars. If you are talking about UTF-8 not working for UTF-8 documents like Ed's email, then its a different problem - maybe you don't have the right fonts installed?(which would be strange, I thought suse had them by default)
It's windows-8859-1 that doesn't have east asian char support
Ummm, what the heck do I care about "east asian characters"? I don't communicate with anyone who does not use the proper English language (but this has to be qualified when it comes to those who use the American version of English :-) .)
Because Ed sent some, and your reply garbled them, prompting this whole discussion, no other reason :) Those garbage characters did actually have a meaning at one point ... and it does display OK for me (see png attachment)
Not until this question of what is supposed to be the correct character encoding to be used in Firefox and Thunderbird as installed from openSUSE DVDs or CDs.
See above, I didn't mean globally correct, I meant for that specific email. Sorry if I stirred you up too much :) Regards, Tejas