Re: [Pan-users] Where do I set the encoding for reading/writing posts?

[Jim Henderson]

On Thu, 12 May 2011 13:19:52 +0200, Per Hedeland wrote:

> Jim Henderson <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>I've got a post in a private group on the server in question that's mis-
>>encoded as 8859-1, but the subject line shows correctly in Greek, but
>>the message body is garbage.
> 
> JFYI, if encoded at all, encoding of headers in News (and mail) is
> "self-describing", the Content-Type/Content-Transfer-Encoding headers
> only pertain to the body (parts) - this is to avoid the client program
> having to read all header lines before displaying any of them. E.g. you
> can have something like this:
> 
> Subject: =?utf-8?B?QmVrcsOkZnRlbHNl?= Content-Type: text/plain;
> charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> 
> Where the Subject is utf-8 base64-encoded, while the body is "raw"
> utf-8. Of course this also allows for the encoding or charset to be
> correctly specified for header lines but incorrectly specified for the
> body - e.g. if the above had charset=iso-8859-1 in the Content-Type
> header even though the body actually *was* utf-8, the result would
> probably be what you're seeing.

Yeah, that's my guess as well.

Jim

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