Re: Quoted-Printable

Øystein Skogstad (oyskog@sn.no)
Fri, 26 Jul 1996 03:41:18 +0200

>In article <dq69xEvNSvKA091yn@students.mimuw.edu.pl>,
>tlukasz@students.mimuw.edu.pl wrote:
>> But when I read Polish newsgroups I see something like this:
[..]
>> > Jak zaczniecie u=BFywa=E6 CP1250 to nadal b=EAdzie Wasze zmartwienie bo ni=
>> > e b=EAdziecie
>> > si=EA trzyma=E6 standard=F3w. RFC(nr do odczytania z sygnaturki Piotra Pi=B1=
>> > tkowskiego)
>>
>> The "Subject:" line and the body contain some strange characters instead
>> of Polish letters. What can be done in order to read/write quoted-printable
>> mail/news with Polish national characters?
The body can be viewed if you set up ISO-8859-2 as your charset in your config
file in your %HOME%\YARN directory. ISO-8859-1 may work too, which I use.
The headers can't be view correctly though.
Only 8-bit coded messages I think, like mine.

In article <kc99xkW2v7tX091yn@bga.com>, mikus@bga.com (Mikus Grinbergs) wrote:
>The subject of 8-bit characters in message header lines is treated by
>a separate standard, RFC 1522. As far as I know, Yarn does not support
>coding or decoding according to RFC 1522.

I've asked Chin Huang to fix this a month ago, but I didn't get any answer.

-- 
Øystein

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