Re: =?big5? header shown in the summary

Re: =?big5? header shown in the summary

[Jesper Harder]

yo@sz.org (Mr. YO) writes:

> Some messages are shown with =?big5?.....= text header, what settings
> should I apply to get it decode correctly?

You shouldn't need to change any settings.  Maybe the RFC 2047
encoding of the headers is malformed -- this happens now and then.
Please post an example of a header which doesn't work for you.

Re: =?big5? header shown in the summary

[Mr. YO]

Here is an example:
===
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax)
X-Accept-Language: en-us, en
MIME-Version: 1.0
Newsgroups: bt.torrent
Subject: Re: =?Big5-HKSCS?B?wuC2SzogV2luWFBfUHJvX3NwMSszMq3Tc3AyuMmkQsFjpKQ=?=
 =?Big5-HKSCS?B?pOUutUy2t6fHuLksqvfGXyil/qbbsMqmd7jLqqkp?=
References: <3fb20ba9$1@bt.newsgroup.com.hk>
In-Reply-To: <3fb20ba9$1@bt.newsgroup.com.hk>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Big5-HKSCS
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
====
As you can see, the subject is in a special format, it should be a chinese character

Re: =?big5? header shown in the summary

[Mr. YO]

When I type alt-x define-coding-system-alias, it can't find the function, I'm using Xemacs on NT, does it support?

Re: =?big5? header shown in the summary

[Jesper Harder]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> So, how about installing this?  Ideally, there should be some kind of
> warning, but displaying the data as BIG5 is probably more useful than
> as QP.

Sounds good.