[imp] Odd symbols instead of mail message

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting bvr <bvr at dds.nl>:

> We have this same problem, so I'll give you what information I have.
>
> Also see this bug report: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/10169
>
> What you are seeing is a little-endian UTF-16 byte order mark  
> displayed in latin1 character set.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark
>
> For us this problem occurs only on our debian (current stable)  
> servers but doesn't on my fedora 16 desktop using the exact same  
> code and IMAP server.
>
> All of the messages that exhibit this problem are HTML formatted  
> with a presumably wrong or invalid character set specification, like  
> these:
>
> <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset="unicode">

This definitely won't work, since "unicode" is **NOT** a charset.  So  
by definition, I believe the XML parser falls back to interpreting as  
iso-8859-1.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]