Re: charset problem

>>>>> On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, "Pierrick" == Pierrick PONS wrote:

  Pierrick> In some body mails, I can read "(Unknown charset: <iso-8859-15>)'

First you could verify that you have the iso-8859-15 character set on 
your computer, by e.g. doing something like:

   $ locale -m | grep -i iso-8859-15
   ISO-8859-15
   $

Then you add a line:

   *mimeUCharsets:     iso-8859-15

to your exmh-defaults file, or your local.app-defaults, whatever seems
most appropriate. After an exmh restart you should now be able to
display messages with the iso-8859-15 character set properly.


  Pierrick> and in some subjects , I still see   =?iso-8859-1?Q?Op=E9ration
  Pierrick> In some recipients I got the same problem : =?ISO-8859-1?QV=

To be able to display iso-8859-1 header fields you must set your
MM_CHARSET to iso-8859-1. Then you restart Exmh and do a 'Rescan
folder' from the More menu. (You will also need decode statements in
your scan format and replcomps files, for the headers you intend to decode.)

But it might not work for utf-8. It's nmh that actually does the
decoding and the version of nmh that I'm using (1.0.4) does not seem
to decode utf-8. If newer versions of nmh have not improved with
respect to the handling of character sets in header fields in general,
there is also this problem: MM_CHARSET can just take one value at
a time, so when there are several mails using different character
sets for header fields, all will not display properly after a folder
rescan. And it's actually a bit annoying.


Jonn