Displaying Windows-1251 character set

Displaying Windows-1251 character set

[David Sumbler]

Occasionally I get e-mails containing these headers:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Windows-1251
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

The contents appear as

\315\356\342\345\351\370\350\345

etc.  Sometimes I get e-mails with

Content-Type: text/html; charset=Windows-1251
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

and these appear as a lot of gibberish accented characters.

Most of these e-mails appear to be spam, so I'm not too bothered.

But how do I go about displaying these sensibly?  I'm running Fedora
Core 2 Linux, on a console set to UTF-8.

David

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Re: Displaying Windows-1251 character set

[Reiner Steib]

On Mon, Apr 04 2005, David Sumbler wrote:

> Occasionally I get e-mails containing these headers:
>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Windows-1251
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
[...]
> But how do I go about displaying these sensibly?  I'm running Fedora
> Core 2 Linux, on a console set to UTF-8.

You need to setup Windows-1251 aka codepage 1251 with `codepage-setup'
and add an entry to `mm-charset-synonym-alist'.

I'd suggest the following code:

(eval-after-load "mm-util"
  '(progn
     (codepage-setup 1251)
     (when (and (not (mm-coding-system-p 'windows-1251))
		(mm-coding-system-p 'cp1251))
       (add-to-list 'mm-charset-synonym-alist
		    '(windows-1251 . cp1251)))))

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