Re: using non-ascii chars on this mailing list
Re: using non-ascii chars on this mailing list
- Subject: Re: using non-ascii chars on this mailing list
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 11:32:36 -0800
On 10/29/02 10:58 AM, "Gakuji Ohtori" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> Shouldn't this work for UTF-8?
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No. Any character sets that use an 8-bit encoding, such as UTF-8 and
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ISO-8859-1, must be encoded with quoted-printable (it is usually done
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automatically by the email client) in order to meet the internet
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limitations. But the list server seems to stupidly mangle any messages
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encoded with quoted-printable as one of the headers in your message
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indicates:
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X-Mime-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by lists.apple.com
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id g9T8VAi15944
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> Couldn't the manager of this list add a simple
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> Content-type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" (or 7 ;-)
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> to the header, though it isn't true? Non-special characters should
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> still
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> work, don't?
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The root cause of this problem is that the list server is configured to
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do what it's not supposed to do (converting messages). If the list
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manager reconfigure the list server to let all messages through as they
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are, that will be the fundamental (and easiest and most simple)
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solution. A mailperson should only deliver a message, not open a
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message and rewrite it.
It could have been reconfigured long ago. The former list manager was
completely uninterested in making this work better for us. There is some
reason why they want things the way they are for all their Apple User Groups
mailing lists, and no one has ever been able to figure out why. We have
never been given a reason that makes any sense. It's been going on like this
for several years now.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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