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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] char encoding problem
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:31:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080714163031.DDC181E8C45@holo.morphisms.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fe23ead80ffa37d33aa264f8de8c7d04@ipgp.jussieu.fr>

> I have a problem with one specific e-mail in p9p acme Mail: only some
> part of it is displayed (~1/2) when I open it (right click) in acme
> Mail. According to mutt, the encoding is iso-8859-15 and I can read it
> fine there.
> There does not seem to be anything special in the first line which is
> "not there" in acme Mail; some accented characters but not different
> from other ones which appear sooner in the mail.

acme couldn't care less.
mailfs is converting the message to utf-8
(or not) according to the content headers.

9p read mail/mbox/40/raw |grep -i '^content'
might tell something useful,
like what character set the message
is claiming to be in.

russ



  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-14 16:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-11 15:55 Mathieu Lonjaret
2008-07-11 15:56 ` andrey mirtchovski
2008-07-11 19:35   ` Mathieu Lonjaret
2008-07-11 19:54     ` erik quanstrom
2008-07-14 16:31 ` Russ Cox [this message]
2008-07-14 17:17   ` Mathieu Lonjaret
2008-07-14 18:38     ` erik quanstrom

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