Re: [9fans] char encoding problem

["Mathieu Lonjaret" <lejatorn@gmail.com>]

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% 9p read mail/mbox/40/raw |grep -i '^content'
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Does it mean that the character set is in iso-8859-15 but the sender
of the message somehow set it wrongly in the headers to be iso-8859-1?
Hence mailfs is failing at trying to convert it from iso-8859-1 to utf-8
because it trusts what's written in the headers?

Thanks,
Mathieu.

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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
Message-ID: <20080714163031.DDC181E8C45@holo.morphisms.net>

> 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