Re: [tlug] Hotmail mail encoding

[Niels Kobschätzki <n.kobschaetzki@example.com>]

On Apr 22, 2007, at 12:10 AM, Stuart Luppescu wrote:

> Hi, My wife got a message from someone with a hotmail account but  
> it was
> ååæååããI tried setting the encoding for reading the  
> message to
> UTF-8, shit_jis, iso-2022-jp and euc-jp. No matter what I tried, it  
> was
> garbage. The message source looks like this:
>
> <DIV
> =class=3DRTE>=E2=80=9A=C2=B1=E2=80=9A=C3=B1=E2=80=9A=C3=89=E2=80=9A=C2 
> =BF=E2=
> =80=9A=C3=8D=C2=81B</DIV>
>
> Anyone know what the story is with this? What's hotmail doing to it's
> Japanese messages?

In my experience hotmail will only show messages right if those use  
the same encoding as the hotmail interface is. If you send Japanese  
with anything else than iso-2022-jpiirc  to a hotmail-account that is  
set to japanese you will only get mojibake (and setting the encoding  
of the browser doesn't work usually). Only iso-2022-jp works iirc. It  
seems that hotmail does some converting on the mail and that fails  
horribly.
Hotmail-accounts are the reason why I set my mailer to show me always  
the encoding of the mail because mail.app always converts to UTF-8 if  
the encoding isn't set by handâ

Niels