Re: Wrong code page?

From: Michael Gray (labrat@onr.com)
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 22:15:31 -0500

On Fri, 20 Jun 1997 15:37:39 -0400,
rronkin@cpcug.org (R. R. Ronkin) wrote this about Wrong code page?:
>>From time to time I get messages or articles in English where every line
>ends in the symbols "equals 20" At other times, I get items in French
>or Spanish where all accented letters appear in numerical codes. But
>some messages come with the accents shown right.
>
>Can PC-Yarn be configured to translate numeric codes, or is this only
>under the control of the sender? Thanks for your ideas.

These codes are typical with MIME encoding enabled in the header.
If the following line is uncommented in your config file, the
offending message will be written to disk in the proper format (that
is IF you want to keep a copy.) If it is uncommented, you should
have gotten a Decode MIME type message box pop up when you encounter
these messages.

#decode-mime=f:\tcpip\metamail\metamail %f
decode-mime=e:\TOOLS\MUNPACK %f

Munpack is freeware (I think) and is available on the net in an OS/2
version. Another utility similar is any of the various metamail
packages for DOS or OS/2, though I've never gotten it to handle
multi-part binaries as easily as munpack. English.doc and the
metamail docs explain the proper usage of metamail.

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