Re: How to display nordic chars?

From: Yngvar Folling (yngvar.folling@login.eunet.no)
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 10:45:30 +0100

In article <T39y0AfHknwe092yn@garlic.com>,
krlund@garlic.com (Kermit Roger (KR) Lund) wrote:
> How should OS/2 & OS/2 YARN v0.92 be setup so that nordic characters are
> translated to yarn correctly. The Nordic chars are coded as =C5 for
> capital A ring, =E5 for lowercase a ring.

That depends on the sending mailer -- and also possibly any gateways in
between. Most mailers have a setting that switches it between sending
8-bit characters as "quoted-printable" (mostly useful if you don't have
an 8-bit clean path between sender and receiver) and transmitting raw
8-bit characters (any other time). Since you don't say what mailer the
sender used, I can't tell exactly how.

It has happened to me that I've been told that my mails ended up as
quoted-printable even though I sent them with Yarn which doesn't have
that as an option. It turned out that it was my ISP's "sendmail"
program (which is used by uqwk) that did it.

> I have also included an charset=ISO-8859/1 statement in the YARN config
> statement.

That should be:

charset=iso-8859-1

Yngvar