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

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On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 17:37:45, cce.zizkov@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!

> 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

We had some discussion about this subject some time (2 years?) ago.
It seems a problem with Windoze code page iso-8859 to be not compatible
with Arachne.
I used two 8-bit caracters, é and è, in the subject line with no problems
in Arachne or with Win-clients.
But if Hélène sends me an e-mail and she uses Windoze Outlook than this
=?iso-8859-2... carbage is in the from line.

To me this is not a problem with Arachne but a Windoze problem... M$ is
using its own interpretation of the "standard" iso-8859. Especially if
Word-documents are used or if Word is used to compose an e-mail.

For é I use: Alt 233 and for è Alt 232.

Regards, Bastiaan 



> 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).

> 2. Arachne comes with the files uuencode.exe and uudecode.exe. What
> are the supposed to do and how do they work?

> Christof Lange

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