[arachne] Re: 8 bit encoding in e-mail headers

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On  6 Feb 04 at 17:37, cce.zizkov@xxxxxxxx wrote:

>Reply to Sender: mailto:cce.zizkov@xxxxxxxx
>Reply to List: mailto:arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>Hi list,
>
>is there anybody who can answer to the following questions?
>
>1. Contemporary mail clients allow 8 bit input in headers (subject,
>from etc.). They usually encode those lines in this way:
>
>Subject: =?iso-8859-2?Q?COENAweb=3A=20Nov=FD=20=E8l=E1nek?=
>
>=?iso-8859-2?  - indicates the codepage,
>Q?             - probably means quoted-printable
>=XY            - are replacements of 8bit character
>?=             - probably indicates end of encoding
>
>How can I (Arachne) filter these lines in order to get 8bit or at
>least 7bit pure text? This would be quite an improving when opening
>the inbox list (see http://www.volny.cz/cce.zizkov/download/page.zbm).

Glenn, is this on the skill level of the Arachne development team?
Sure, you probably never get 8bit messages and headers - but IIRC
there are a few French speaking/writing in Canada?

BTW: the same problem - unreadable header lines - will repeat in the
planned NNTP feature.

Christof Lange

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