Re: Question: Do Winston's headers cause charset issues for anyone else?

"Carlos E.R." <[email protected]> Thu, 12 Mar 2026 02:09:02 +0100
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-10,news.software.readers,alt.comp.microsoft.windows
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2026-03-12 01:32, Maria Sophia wrote:
> Question:
> Do Winston's headers cause charset issues for anyone else?
> Or just me?

No.

Asking TB to produce the raw message, it comes as

From: =?UTF-8?B?Li4ud8Khw7HCp8KxwqTDsQ==?= <...>

Which is legal, obviously. (Reasoning: if TB does it, then it is legal)

Message-ID: <[email protected]>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird
Content-Language: en-US



Looking at the stored file in my computer:

00000070 50 4F 53 54 │ 45 44 21 6E │ 6F 74 2D 66 │ 6F 72 2D 6D │ 61 69 6C 0A │ 46 72 6F 6D │ 3A 20 3D 3F  POSTED!not-for-mail.From: =?
0000008C 55 54 46 2D │ 38 3F 42 3F │ 4C 69 34 75 │ 64 38 4B 68 │ 77 37 48 43 │ 70 38 4B 78 │ 77 71 54 44  UTF-8?B?Li4ud8Khw7HCp8KxwqTD
000000A8 73 51 3D 3D │ 3F 3D 20 3C │ 77 69 6E 73 │ 74 6F 6E 6D │ 76 70 40 67 │ 6D 61 69 6C │ 2E 63 6F 6D  sQ==?= <[email protected]
000000C4 3E 0A 4E 65 │ 77 73 67 72 │ 6F 75 70 73 │ 3A 20 61 6C │ 74 2E 63 6F │ 6D 70 2E 6F │ 73 2E 77 69  >.Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.wi

Which has been processed by Leafnode, without any problem.

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Cheers, Carlos.
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