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Re: Hebrew Under gbiff
- To: Herouth Maoz <herouth(at-nospam)netvision.net.il>
- Subject: Re: Hebrew Under gbiff
- From: Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir(at-nospam)technion.ac.il>
- Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 08:10:37 +0200 (IST)
- Cc: Eli Marmor <marmor(at-nospam)netmask.it>, Israeli Linux users list <Linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il>
- Delivered-To: linux.org.il-Linux-il@linux.org.il
- In-Reply-To: <200112121149.fBCBnq224372@herouth.prv.il.itouchnet.net>
- Sender: linux-il-bounce(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Herouth Maoz wrote:
> On 2001 December? 12 ,Wednesday 12:18, Eli Marmor wrote:
> > Aharon Schkolnik wrote:
> ..
> > > =?WINDOWS-1255?Q?=E0=E4=F8
> > >
> > > Does anyone know why this is, and if there is anything I can do
> > > about it ?
> ..
> > The header you quoted, is encoded in a BASE64 MIME format.
> > If it is not decoded, it means that the application you use (gbiff
> > in this specific case) doesn't know how to decode BASE64. Or that
> > it is not configured to do it.
>
> Actually, that header is encoded in Quoted-Printable. The format is
> charset followed by encoding method, where Q is Quoted-Printable and
> B is Base 64.
>
> Usually, converters look for the body of the message, and if one of
> the headers says that it is decoded (either as Quoted-Printable or
> Base64), they decode it. There are some mail converters who fail to
> convert the headers. For example, I run an old version of Eudora on
> my Mac, and it decodes those headers well if the charset is familiar
> to them, and leave it as is if the charset is unfamiliar.
Where can I find such convertor already written?
I have a small script that I run from .procmailrc on one computer to
announce me of coming messages to that computer:
formail -X From: -X Subject: | mail -s "Mail From <host>" my@email.address
It sends the subject and sender of the original message in a seperate
message. But obviously gives some gibrish in case of a subject/sender
encoded as in the quoted message.
--
Tzafrir Cohen
mailto:tzafrir@technion.ac.il
http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
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