From: Graham Murray <graham@barnowl.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: non-ASCII chars in headers
Date: 19 Sep 1999 10:12:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2k8pnb47j.fsf@barnowl.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Greg Stark's message of "18 Sep 1999 23:03:59 -0400"
Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:
> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>
> > I think Gnus ought to have a look at the header before sending and to
> > encode non-ASCII characters. Both for mail and for news.
>
> Seems to work fine from here:
>
> > From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=)
>
> What's going wrong exactly?
The problem seems to be that gnus correctly encodes the non-ascii
characters in the headers for *mail*, but uses "raw" 8bit characters
in *news*. As an example here are the headers I received for one of
Kai's posts to comp.emacs
>From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)
>Newsgroups: comp.emacs
>Subject: Re: rmail -> inbox (rmail -> vm)
>Date: 19 Sep 1999 00:22:33 +0200
>Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany
>Message-ID: <vaf1zbv6es6.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
>References: <37e3fadf@news1.prserv.net>
>NNTP-Posting-Host: lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de
>Mime-Version: 1.0
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>User-Agent: Gnus/5.070096 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.96) Emacs/20.4
>Path: barnowl.demon.co.uk!news.demon.co.uk!demon!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!newsfeed.nacamar.de!newsfeed.arcor-ip.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-koe1.dfn.de!news.ruhrgebiet.individual.net!Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE!news
>Lines: 4
>Xref: barnowl.demon.co.uk comp.emacs:6062
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-09-19 10:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-09-18 21:10 Kai Großjohann
1999-09-19 3:03 ` Greg Stark
1999-09-19 10:12 ` Graham Murray [this message]
1999-09-19 10:49 ` Kai Großjohann
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