[Users] Quoted printable broken.

Erik P. Olsen epodata at gmail.com
Sun Dec 23 13:23:41 CET 2018


On 2018-12-23 at 11:18:57 Andrej Kacian wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Dec 2018 08:54:33 +0100
> Erik P. Olsen wrote:
> 
> > Unable to decode Danish special letters which have been encoded using quoted
> > printable. They are all substituted with _ (underscore).
> > 
> > Using claws-mail 3.17.1 and Fedora 29.  
> 
> Can you forward (as attachment) an e-mail where this can be seen?
> 
> Quoted-printable is basically just transfer encoding to sneak non-ASCII
> bytes through the text-based SMTP protocol. The actual meaning of those
> bytes (the character set) is dictated by other means, e.g. e-mail
> headers. I'm guessing that you have some e-mails where this is set
> incorrectly, leading to incorrect display of these e-mails.

Sure I'll send the source listing but I've also tried to read it with thunderbird and
there it is read correctly.

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Regards,
Erik P. Olsen
 



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