Re: [tlug] Re: Hotmail mail encoding

[Patrick Kellaher <kalmite@example.com>]

Stuart Luppescu wrote:
> On æ, 2007-04-22 at 14:40 +1000, Jim Breen wrote:
>   
> > 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 its
> > > 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.
> >     
>
> Well, when I forwarded the message from my wife's computer (with
> Outlook) the original headers were not preserved (and I'm too lazy to go
> upstairs and copy the info from her computer), but I sent myself a
> message from hotmail, and, mirabile dictu, gmail displays it correctly,
> but evolution just shows this:
>
> &#12371;&#12428;&#12399;&#35430;&#39443;&#12391;&#12377;&#12290;
> &#35501;&#12417;&#12414;&#12377;&#12363;&#12290;
>
> Here are the headers from the message I sent to myself:
>
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed
>
> No info on encoding or charset. 
>
> Could the fact that I set my default encoding in Firefox to UTF-8 be
> related to this?
>
>   

Kind of sounds to me like Evolution wasn't compiled with multi language 
support (--enable-nls), however it is hard to believe that this is the 
case now a days.  What distro are you using?  On the windows side, I can 
tell you I have had problems with shift_jis messages, however usually 
installing all the Asian language support files works, although I am 
going to guess that this has already been done.

Pat