Re: [courier-users] character encoding question

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charles uchu strader writes:

> Does anyone know much about encoding differences? One user has
> received two different emails from the same sender in the last two
> weeks. These emails were in Russian and sent from Outlook Express.
>
> The first had a content-type header as listed below and the text of the
> message was properly viewable.
>
> Content-Type: text/plain;
> format=flowed;
> charset="windows-1251";
> reply-type=original
>
> The second had a slightly different content-type header and all the text
> was replaced with a barrage of ? marks.
>
> Content-Type: text/plain;
> format=flowed;
> charset="iso-8859-1";
> reply-type=original
>
> So the questions are:
>
> 1) Is the content-type inserted by Outlook or is this something that
> Courier interprets and sets?

Content-Type in this case is set by Outlook.

> 2) What might cause the charset value to be different between the two
> messages (same version of Outlook express used for both messages)?
>
> 3) Is this what is causing the message to become unreadable or am I
> totally off-base?

This is indeed what makes the mail unreadable.


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