Re: Still having encoding problems

On Wednesday 11 February 2009 20:05:01 phep wrote:
> Anne Wilson a écrit :
> > View > Set Encoding is set to Auto.  Compose character set is set to
> > utf-8. I'm still seeing some very strange encodings.  From one message
> > received today, for instance:
> >
> > each comprising 10œ" dinner plate, 8" soup/breakfast bowl, 7œ" dessert
> > plate, cup and saucer.
> >
> > and
> >
> > Mains powered, 2900W, measures 14Ÿ" x 21" x 12Ÿ", generous 45Ÿ pints
> > capacity
> >
> > Has anyone any idea why this is happening?
>
> This is ISO-8859-1 displayed as ISO-8859-1 :
> Ÿ = ¾
> œ = ½
>
> This may be a wrong charset detection by KMail (œ being maybe more
> frequent in some countries than ½) but it may also be a wrongly
> advertised charset in the headers of the original mail. You can check
> this viewing the source of it.
>
I'm flabbergasted!  So an English company sends out English email to English 
customers, using an encoding that will make no sense to them?

KMail didn't get it wrong - the headers say charset="iso-8859-1".  I guess 
they've just got a new Windows install :-)

Thanks for the explanation.

Anne

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