Re: 8-bit characters mapped to 0xFF

"Klaus Elsbernd" <[email protected]> Tue, 08 Feb 2005 10:38:44 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.exmh.devel
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>>>John Beck said:
 > 
 > It used to be that I could cut-and-paste 8-bit characters, i.e., anything
 > in the (decimal) 128-255 range (hex 0x80-0xFF) of my local character set
 > (which happens to be iso-8859-1), and exmh would do the Right Thing.  But
 > 2.7.2 seems to mangle all such characters to 255 (0xFF).  Note that if I
 > attach a file and specify base64 or quoted-printable as the encoding, 
then
 > all is fine, but if I specify none as the encoding, or just insert a 
file,
 > or just cut-and-paste directly into a plain text message, then the 
mangling
 > occurs.
I had the same problem.
When I entered 8-bit characters (umlaut), they seemed to be ok. Sedit showed
them. But when I send the message, the message body got garbled and all
the umlauts changed to 0xff.
As Brent worked out, I seemed to be a font problem.
But when changing from 2.7 to 2.7.2 I changed nothing within my X11
configuration. (Solaris 9, /usr/sfw/bin/wishx8.3). The old version 2.7
even works.
So I investigated a litte bit further and compiled myself a new tcl-tk (8.4)
version.
This works with 2.7.2.
So problem seems to be incombability to tcl-tk 7.3?


Bis dann
Klaus

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