On Thu, 12 May 2011 01:20:33 +0000, Duncan wrote: > Jim Henderson posted on Thu, 12 May 2011 00:41:09 +0000 as excerpted: > >> On Wed, 11 May 2011 02:39:41 +0000, Duncan wrote: >> >>> That's a per-group setting: look under group preferences. >>> >>> If the group appears on several servers you have configured, note that >>> the posting profile is another group setting, and the posting profile >>> in turn sets which server the post goes to. >> >> OK, thanks. I may have to look at how to change it for a large number >> of groups, but at least that gets me around the fact that this >> particular server is lying about the encoding in the headers. > > For that, take a good text editor (of course sed's useful at the command > line for stuff like this, once you know the format to s/// on) to > $PAN_HOME/group-preferences.xml, doing a search-and-replace on the old > value, within a string such as: > > <string name='character-encoding' value='UTF-8'/> > > ($PAN_HOME defaults to ~/.pan2 if the environmental variable is unset, > of course.) > > Just be sure you don't screw up the XML structure, keep quoting intact, > etc, the basic precautions one would normally take with an xml based > file.
Yea, that's kinda what I'm thinking. Does that setting force the code page for reading, or just for posting? I've got a post in a private group on the server in question that's mis- encoded as 8859-1, but the subject line shows correctly in Greek, but the message body is garbage. The group is already set to UTF-8. Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
