[imp] Subject and message not displayed because of accentuated characters.

Laurent Mazet mazet at softndesign.org
Wed Sep 10 19:12:10 UTC 2008


Quoting "Michael M Slusarz" <slusarz at horde.org>:

> Quoting Laurent Mazet <mazet at softndesign.org>:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've got an email that IMP does not display either the subject in  
>> the  message list nor the message itself. It appears that subject  
>> and the  message contain accentuated characters using iso-8851-1  
>> charset but  there's no declaration line in the mail header. So, I  
>> think that this  message does not respect the RFC but I need to  
>> read it! How can I  setup horde/imp to display something.
>
> Yes, it is a broken message and IMP is displaying it correctly.   
> However, if you want to break RFCs there is an IMP pref that changes  
> the assumed charset in the headers from US-ASCII to whatever you  
> define (such as ISO-8859-1).
>

Yes, you're right. That's my fault. I found the preference setting and  
I released that I've force UTF-8. After reset it to the default value,  
my subejt and my message reappear (with few question marks). Anyway,  
it's now readable. Thank you for your help.

Regards,

-- 
Dr. Laurent Mazet   -=-  "Use the source, Luke"  -=-   mazet at softndesign.org


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