On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 23:05:19 +0800, Charles Jie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thank you, Boris.
> 
> But that's weird for your case. If you have attachment, your header
> should have only 'Content-Type: multipart/...' instead of 'text/plain'
> or 'text/html'.

-- but every attachment has its own `Content-Type:' header. e.g. text/plain

> 
> For my cases, they have the latter content-type and no attachment. They
> send me inline 8-bit muitibyte (big5) text. Mutt will depend on the
> charset specified in Content-Type: filed.

-- it doesn't matter. attachments were the first thing i've noticed. inline
data looks the same.

> 
> charset-hook:
> 
> This doesn't look matching my problem. If a message speicifies a strange
> charset, it can map it. But for my case, messages miss 'charset=big5'
> and mutt thinks to use some DEFAULT that I don't know where it comes from.

-- read referred thread (especially Michael Tatge's comments) thoroughly
;-)

> 
> My locale is LANG=zh_TW.big5. And my mutt has 'set charset=big5'. I
> don't know what is missing.

-- charset part in header is missing ;-). and mutt assumes us-ascii in this
case (check this by <view-attachments>, usually is bound to v).

10x, karlov.

> 
> best,
> charlie
> 
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 07:41:38PM +0300, boris karlov wrote:
> > On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 09:48:30 +0800, Charles Jie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > In our country, I used to receive messages without 'charset' specifed in
> > > Content-Type:, while the text body is encoded in big5.
> > >
> > > I have my mutt "set charset=big5" but the pager just display '?'s for
> > > such messages (other charset-tagged messages are OK).
> >
> > -- i have the same problem. check by <view-attachments> for assumed charset
> > - is it us-ascii? i have the last one if there's no charset part in header.
> >
> > >
> > > How can I do it in mutt? "set charset=big5" looks not working.
> >
> > On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 Michael Tatge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > in thread `charset in text/plain attachments: how to tune?' has supposed to
> > use <charset-hook> (e.g. charset-hook "" big5). i have `empty
> > (sub)expression' error in this case, but Michael does not. it's worth a try
> >
> > 10x, karlov.


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