Re: utf-8 subject

On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, Vince LaMonica wrote:

> 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

Thanks. That is an example of an encoded subject that breaks the rules 
because it is too long. Pine strictly enforces the line length limit.

However, it turns out lots of software ignores the line length limit and 
so alpine (http://www.washington.edu/alpine/), the follow-on to pine, also 
ignores the length limit now and it will decode subjects like that as you 
expect (though arguably incorrectly). You can't get pine to decode the 
subject but alpine is a replacement for pine that will do the decoding and 
does have many other improvements, as well.

Steve

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