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Re: [Nmh-workers] error: mhshow: unable to convert character set
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Mikhail |
Subject: |
Re: [Nmh-workers] error: mhshow: unable to convert character set |
Date: |
Sat, 21 Jun 2014 16:50:06 +0400 |
>So the correct line should have been:
>
>> You wrote 17 июня 2014 г.
>
>Does that look right?
Yes, it mean "17 June 2014 y." in Russian.
>Somewhere along the way those characters were mangled by sender's
>MUA (Mozilla, it looks like) and the UTF-8 bytes were marked as
>windows-1252, leading to the current mess (it looks like none of those
>characters exist in windows-1252). So, that was pretty bogus. Also
>pretty bogus is nmh simply aborting; I think this is another data
>point that says for every character set conversion we need to put in
>substitution characters; aborting is simply not reasonable.
Thank you for investigation.