Re: utf-8 subject

Vince LaMonica <[email protected]> Sun, 9 Mar 2008 23:01:05 -0400 (EDT)
Newsgroups gmane.mail.pine.general
Organization The last best hope for peace
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, Steve Hubert wrote:

} On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Tim K. (Gmane) wrote:
} 
} > I'm getting a few emails whose subject in pine shows up as
} > "=?utf-8?somegarbage"
} > 
} > Is there any setting in pine that I can use to properly decode the subject?
} > Thunderbird for example displays the subject just fine. The characters in
} > the subject are all simple ASCII so the terminal should be able to display
} > them, it's just the encoding that I guess confuses pine ...
} > 
} > Thanks for your help.
} 
} Could you send an actual example of such a message? Thanks.

I'm not the OP, but I've been seeing these for years as well. Using 4.64 
hand compiled on Linux. I've put up a sample from August 2007 with full 
headers at:

http://vjl.org/utf8.txt

HTH,

/vjl/

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