* Olaf Hering <o...@aepfle.de> [02-19-16 06:57]:
>
> How does mutt decode and display base64 parts of a message?
>
> My xterm running mutt, and also ThunderBird, shows garbage like this:
>
> ...
> #
> # Regards,
> # NormanN?????r??y隊Z)z{.????ۚ?맲??r??z?^?ˬz??N?(?֜??^?
> ޭ隊Z)z{.????ۚ??0???????Ǩ
> #
> ...
>
> The input looks like this:
>
> # Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> # Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> # X-MIME-Notice: attachments may have been removed from this message
> # MIME-Version: 1.0
> #
> # SGVsbG8sDQoNCmkgbm90aWNlZCBpbiBTTEVTIDEyLjEgdGhhdCB4bCBkb2VzIG5vdCBoYXZlIGEg
> # 4oCeeGwgbmV34oCcIGNvbW1hbmQgYW55IG1vcmUuIEkgd2FzIGhlYXZpbHkgdXNpbmcg4oCeeG0g
> # bmV34oCcIHdpdGggcGxhaW4gdGV4dCBjb25maWdzLg0K4oCedmlyc2ggZGVmaW5l4oCcIG9ubHkg
> # d29ya3Mgd2l0aCB4bWwgZmlsZXMuDQoNCklzIHRoZXJlIGFueSB3YXkgdG8gYWRkIGEgZG9tYWlu
> # IGFuZCBub3Qgc3RhcnQgaXQgZnJvbSBhIHBsYWluIHRleHQgY29uZmlnPw0KDQpSZWdhcmRzLA0K
> # Tm9ybWFu
> # --
> # To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-virtual+unsubscr...@opensuse.org
>
>
> I wonder why both TB and mutt fail to display properly. I think similar
> failures happen in the gmail webUI.
> Looks like something forgets to properly truncate a buffer.
>
>
> Olaf
Since affecting multiple outputs, a better *guess* might me a system
locals setting
--
(paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri
http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri
http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2
Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net
