From: Heinz Rommerskirchen <Heinrich.Rommerskirchen@icn.siemen.de>
Subject: Re: Reading non-ascii characters, recognise an encoding
Date: 12 Sep 2002 10:13:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u65xbeicz.fsf@icn.siemen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: prznun4zto.fsf@raclette.anu.edu.au
Andrew Torda <torda@zbh.uni-hamburg.de> writes:
> I sometimes have trouble (maybe always) reading mail from some
> Europeans with their representation of non-ascii characters.
> Typically, a word looks like
> f=FCr
> whereas they intend it to look like
> fur
> with two dots (umlaut) over the "u".
> Their mail header says that the message is iso-8859-1 encoding,
They (or more probable their mail program) lied, 'f=FCr' is *not* latin-1
but quoted-printable. See the page 'Article Washing' in the Gnus info,
especially the entry 'W q'.
--
Regards
Heinz
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-12 8:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-12 4:05 Reading non-ascii characters, recognise an encoding Andrew Torda
2002-09-12 8:13 ` Heinz Rommerskirchen [this message]
2002-09-12 10:59 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-09-13 20:58 ` Ivan Kanis
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