On Thu, 12 May 2011 13:19:52 +0200, Per Hedeland wrote: > Jim Henderson <hende...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>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. > > JFYI, if encoded at all, encoding of headers in News (and mail) is > "self-describing", the Content-Type/Content-Transfer-Encoding headers > only pertain to the body (parts) - this is to avoid the client program > having to read all header lines before displaying any of them. E.g. you > can have something like this: > > Subject: =?utf-8?B?QmVrcsOkZnRlbHNl?= Content-Type: text/plain; > charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > Where the Subject is utf-8 base64-encoded, while the body is "raw" > utf-8. Of course this also allows for the encoding or charset to be > correctly specified for header lines but incorrectly specified for the > body - e.g. if the above had charset=iso-8859-1 in the Content-Type > header even though the body actually *was* utf-8, the result would > probably be what you're seeing.
Yeah, that's my guess as well. 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
