Re: [courier-users] character encoding question

thanks!

charles



Sam Varshavchik wrote:

> 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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