Re: UTF-8 signatures with BOM

2009-08-07 Thread Alexander Dahl
Hi, > The do it... :) In mutt, you can even set $signature to a pipe, i.e. > a script that gets the signature as argument and prints it with BOM: > > set signature="script.sh signature|" That's what I did now, wrote a script strip-bom.pl which removes the BOM from the beginning of the signatur

Re: UTF-8 signatures with BOM

2009-08-07 Thread Rocco Rutte
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 05:26:55PM +0200, Alexander Dahl wrote: > > As to where it comes from, the character is in the signature file. I > > wouldn't expect the MUA to remove characters from the signature file. > > Not in general, but this one is special. ;-) Not from mutt's view. > > Why is it

Re: UTF-8 signatures with BOM

2009-08-07 Thread Rocco Rutte
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 08:11:58AM -0600, lee wrote: > Is it possible to use this character in the body of a mail? I'm not > seeing a special character in the signature. Yes, it's just that this one has zero width and there mutt ignores it (as it does for 0x200b). Rocco

Re: UTF-8 signatures with BOM

2009-08-07 Thread Alexander Dahl
Hi, > Is it possible to use this character in the body of a mail? I'm not > seeing a special character in the signature. Why should it not be? At least it corrupts the correct signature coloring in my mutt. Haven't tried this with other mail clients yet. > As to where it comes from, the characte

Re: UTF-8 signatures with BOM

2009-08-07 Thread lee
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 03:52:10PM +0200, Alexander Dahl wrote: > > 24 Alexander Dahl, Staff Engineer > > This is the same signature you should see below and you should also find > this special character in it. Is it possible to use this character in the body of a mail? I'm not seeing a specia

UTF-8 signatures with BOM

2009-08-07 Thread Alexander Dahl
Hi there, up to today I had just one signature file in the plain old place ~/.signature which I edited on the system I used mutt. For my other mail clients I have a bunch of different signature files in a VCS to use the same files with different clients (actually several instances of Mozilla Thund