Mime unreadable stuff in headers?

Mime unreadable stuff in headers?

[Lars Balker Rasmussen]

What happened to the decoding of the horrible "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F8rn?="
stuff, that some tortured and misguided souls put in headers?

I remember putting `gnus-mime-decode-quoted-printable' in
`gnus-article-prepare-hook' and `gnus-parse-headers-hook' to decode it,
but had to remove them again at some point as I got errors entering
summaries and viewing articles :-/

So, what alternative do I have to get rid of them?  Why isn't the
decoding of them standard behaviour (it being the most convenient for
all parties), or if it is the default, what did I somehow overwrite?
-- 
Lars Balker Rasmussen
<URL:http://www.daimi.aau.dk/~gnort/>  <URL:mailto:lars@rasmussen.org>

Mime unreadable stuff in headers?

[Unknown]

>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Balker Rasmussen <gnort@daimi.aau.dk> writes:

    Lars> What happened to the decoding of the horrible
    Lars> "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F8rn?=" stuff, that some tortured and
    Lars> misguided souls put in headers?

i agree... it seems that this problem gets worse and worse... i just
had to turn off mime because i could not decode this type of
message...

i would be greatly interested in a fix to this problem as i enjoy and
use this package quite alot...

    Lars> I remember putting `gnus-mime-decode-quoted-printable' in
    Lars> `gnus-article-prepare-hook' and `gnus-parse-headers-hook' to
    Lars> decode it, but had to remove them again at some point as I
    Lars> got errors entering summaries and viewing articles :-/

    Lars> So, what alternative do I have to get rid of them?  Why
    Lars> isn't the decoding of them standard behaviour (it being the
    Lars> most convenient for all parties), or if it is the default,
    Lars> what did I somehow overwrite?  Lars Balker Rasmussen
    Lars> <URL:http://www.daimi.aau.dk/~gnort/>
    Lars> <URL:mailto:lars@rasmussen.org>

i to would be interested in a fix...

thanks in advance...
andreas

   Steller Computer Consultants	 	Andreas Kaempf
	P.O. BOX 3873			
     Nashua, NH 03062  USA	      akaempf@sccon.com

Re: Mime unreadable stuff in headers?

[Steven L Baur]

>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Balker Rasmussen <gnort@daimi.aau.dk> writes:

Lars> What happened to the decoding of the horrible
Lars> "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F8rn?=" stuff, that some tortured and
Lars> misguided souls put in headers?

Proper decoding is being worked on.  You need to use tm with Gnus though.
See:
	http://www.miranova.com/~steve/gnus-local.html
for some screen dumps on how ISO-2022-JP (as one example) is
*supposed* to look.  :-)

-- 
steve@miranova.com baur
Unsolicited commercial e-mail will be proofread for $250/hour.
Andrea Seastrand: For your vote on the Telecom bill, I will vote for anyone
except you in November.

Re: Mime unreadable stuff in headers?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Lars Balker Rasmussen <gnort@daimi.aau.dk> writes:

> I remember putting `gnus-mime-decode-quoted-printable' in
> `gnus-article-prepare-hook' and `gnus-parse-headers-hook' to decode it,
> but had to remove them again at some point as I got errors entering
> summaries and viewing articles :-/

By default, `gnus-parse-headers-hook' is `gnus-decode-rfc1522', which
should remove all the ?iso-8859-??? stuff from the summary buffer...

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen

Re: Mime unreadable stuff in headers?

[Steinar Bang]

>>>>> Andreas Kaempf <>:

>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Balker Rasmussen <gnort@daimi.aau.dk> writes:
Lars> What happened to the decoding of the horrible
Lars> "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F8rn?=" stuff, that some tortured and
Lars> misguided souls put in headers?

> i agree... it seems that this problem gets worse and worse... i just
> had to turn off mime because i could not decode this type of
> message...

Er... turn off MIME...?  Why...?

If you mean for sending, then you can put the following in your
~/.emacs (I hope Morioka Tomohiko won't be too unhappy with me
revealing this, but it is actually to recommend for a Dane using ISO
8859-1 on USENET from a vanilla GNU Emacs)


(add-hook 'message-setup-hook
      (lambda ()
	; Avoid posting Q-P
	(mime-editor/toggle-transfer-level 8)
	; Avoid having USENET headers RFC 1522 encoded
	 (setq mime/no-encoding-header-fields
	       (append mime/no-encoding-header-fields
		       '("Subject" "From" "To" "In-Reply-To")))
	 ))

Re: Mime unreadable stuff in headers?

[Lars Balker Rasmussen]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:
> By default, `gnus-parse-headers-hook' is `gnus-decode-rfc1522', which
> should remove all the ?iso-8859-??? stuff from the summary buffer...

Ah, yes, silly me.  I had overwritten gnus-parse-headers-hook.  Duh.

This doesn't help the situation in the Article buffer, though, which
gnus-mime-decode-quoted-printable used to do.  Any hope here, or do we
have to wait for full Mime-support?
-- 
Lars Balker Rasmussen
<URL:http://www.daimi.aau.dk/~gnort/>  <URL:mailto:lars@rasmussen.org>

Re: Mime unreadable stuff in headers?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Lars Balker Rasmussen <gnort@daimi.aau.dk> writes:

> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:
> > By default, `gnus-parse-headers-hook' is `gnus-decode-rfc1522', which
> > should remove all the ?iso-8859-??? stuff from the summary buffer...
> 
> Ah, yes, silly me.  I had overwritten gnus-parse-headers-hook.  Duh.
> 
> This doesn't help the situation in the Article buffer, though, which
> gnus-mime-decode-quoted-printable used to do.  Any hope here, or do we
> have to wait for full Mime-support?

No, you can use that function in `gnus-article-display-hook' as well. 

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen

Re: Mime unreadable stuff in headers?

[Unknown]

>>>>> "Steinar" == Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:

>>>>> Andreas Kaempf <>:
>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Balker Rasmussen <gnort@daimi.aau.dk> writes:
    Lars> What happened to the decoding of the horrible
    Lars> "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F8rn?=" stuff, that some tortured and
    Lars> misguided souls put in headers?

    >> i agree... it seems that this problem gets worse and worse... i
    >> just had to turn off mime because i could not decode this type
    >> of message...

    Steinar> Er... turn off MIME...?  Why...?

sorry about the late response but i just got back from holiday...

the problem i am experiencing is still here even with the
7.71.release... seems i get some messages that have weird x-face info
and i can not read them... everything seems to hang when i try to read
it until i do a quit (control-g) and then pass over the message or
delete it...

this problem does not happen when i just use vm with mime turned off
to read my email messages...

has anyone else had this happen and found a fix for this...  this is
the only problem i have with tm... i think it is an excellent
package...  i would just like to be able to use it all the time....

andreas

    Steinar> If you mean for sending, then you can put the following
    Steinar> in your ~/.emacs (I hope Morioka Tomohiko won't be too
    Steinar> unhappy with me revealing this, but it is actually to
    Steinar> recommend for a Dane using ISO 8859-1 on USENET from a
    Steinar> vanilla GNU Emacs)


    Steinar> (add-hook 'message-setup-hook (lambda () Avoid posting
    Steinar> Q-P (mime-editor/toggle-transfer-level 8) Avoid having
    Steinar> USENET headers RFC 1522 encoded (setq
    Steinar> mime/no-encoding-header-fields (append
    Steinar> mime/no-encoding-header-fields '("Subject" "From" "To"
    Steinar> "In-Reply-To"))) ))