Re: the trouble with charset Windows-1252

2001-12-10 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 01:16:58 +0200, Baurjan Ismagulov wrote: > I hadn't used procmail before, so I've read some manuals. Using the > default spool mailbox, .forward and procmail recipe like > > :0 w: $DEFAULT.lock > * ^mailing-list: .*yahoogroups > * ^content-type: text/plain; charset=us-asci

Re: the trouble with charset Windows-1252

2001-12-10 Thread Baurjan Ismagulov
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 07:11:40PM +0100, Cristian wrote: > It looks like I haven't made myself very clear. My point is that even > if the Content-Type is set `correctly' to Windows-1252, there are > still some characters that appear as question marks but should (in my > opinion) rather be convert

Re: the trouble with charset Windows-1252

2001-12-09 Thread Baurjan Ismagulov
Hello, thanks all for your suggestions. I hadn't used procmail before, so I've read some manuals. Using the default spool mailbox, .forward and procmail recipe like :0 w: $DEFAULT.lock * ^mailing-list: .*yahoogroups * ^content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii | formail -i "Content-Type: text/

Re: the trouble with charset Windows-1252

2001-12-09 Thread Baurjan Ismagulov
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 07:11:40PM +0100, Cristian wrote: > It looks like I haven't made myself very clear. My point is that even > if the Content-Type is set `correctly' to Windows-1252, there are > still some characters that appear as question marks but should (in my > opinion) rather be convert

Re: the trouble with charset Windows-1252

2001-12-07 Thread Cristian
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 07:19:53AM -0500, David T-G wrote: > ...and then Baurjan Ismagulov said... > > I also suffer from the same problem. In such cases, I don't use any > > external programs; instead, I "v"iew-attachments, "^E"dit-type, and > > override the charset. > > That's one way to do it.

Re: the trouble with charset Windows-1252

2001-12-07 Thread David T-G
Baurjan -- ...and then Baurjan Ismagulov said... % Hello, Hi! % % On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 06:02:53PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: % > Right, that's what the excellent programs iconv and recode are for, % % I also suffer from the same problem. In such cases, I don't use any % external prog

Re: the trouble with charset Windows-1252

2001-12-06 Thread Michael Wagner
On Thursday, 06. Dec. 2001, Baurjan Ismagulov wrote: > However, I have two problems with this approach: > > 1. I can't save the change. >If I move the message with overridden charset into another folder, it >returns to the original state. > > 2. It doesn't scale. >I'm subscribed to a

Re: the trouble with charset Windows-1252

2001-12-06 Thread Baurjan Ismagulov
Hello, On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 06:02:53PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Right, that's what the excellent programs iconv and recode are for, I also suffer from the same problem. In such cases, I don't use any external programs; instead, I "v"iew-attachments, "^E"dit-type, and override the cha

Re: the trouble with charset Windows-1252

2001-12-06 Thread Baurjan Ismagulov
Hello, On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 06:02:53PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Right, that's what the excellent programs iconv and recode are for, I also suffer from the same problem. In such cases, I don't use any external programs; instead, I "v"iew-attachments, "^E"dit-type, and override the cha

the trouble with charset Windows-1252

2001-12-06 Thread mutti
Hello Mutt users, like most people, I often receive eMails from Windows users. These eMails tend to contain some of those characters from the Windows-1252 character set that are not part of the iso-8859-1 standard (aka Latin-1). You know. Since Windows-1252 is actually a small extension to iso-8