[tlug] Re: Hotmail mail encoding

["Jim Breen" <jimbreen@example.com>]

From: Stuart Luppescu <s-luppescu@example.com>
> Hi, My wife got a message from someone with a hotmail account but it was
> 完全文字化け。I 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?

Hmm. Looks like Shit_JIS it "quoted printable" encapsulation. What did the
MIME headers (if any) say? (A well-behaved MUA will decode those =XX
thingos, but only if the MIME headers says they exist.)

Wonder how thay got Hotmail to do that? Whenever I try Hotmail in Japanese
it just uses those horrible entity codes.

Jim
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Jim Breen
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Clayton School of Information Technology,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/