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Re: modem config.............
>>>>> Pieter == Pieter Meiring <p.d.meiring [at] sheffield.ac.uk> writes:
Pieter> Ross's messages are multipart MIME enoded things much
Pieter> beloved of Micro$loth Mailers. Only part of the message is
Pieter> useful text; the rest is formatting information, etc.
Well, I get messages in Japanese, two kinds of Chinese, German,
French, Croatian, and English. I can only read the English and the
Japanese, mind you, but I'm very happy for the formatting.
And you're being very generous about the several kB of leading garbage
in the message body. I use 4-letter words for that, not the 3-letter
abbreviation you did. ;-)
Pieter> I use exmh at this end which allows you to view all parts
Pieter> of a MIME encoded message in various formats so you do not
Pieter> miss anything - the default decoding for these particular
Pieter> messages (text/html) results in a blank message! - I
Pieter> wonder if this is a conspiracy!? ;)
Blank message is the right answer. There is no HTML in there because
the iso-8859-1 content-type header announces 1-byte-per-character
content.
Evidently Outhouse (or MIMEOLE) discounts the MIME Content-Type header
and keys on the Unicode byte-order-mark signature. Makes sense, given
how unreliable MIME generated by those programs is.
Conspiracy? Could be. I think they intentionally cripple their i18n
features so that they can claim it's really hard to produce a truly
i18n/m17n[1] OS (granted, that ain't easy), and to induce sales of
their i18n courses. But this makes it hard for them to do anything
right if it involves non-ASCII processing.
Footnotes:
[1] Count the internal letters in internationalization and
multilingualization.
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