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Re: [Nmh-workers] scan doesn't appear to understand language encodings
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Laura Creighton |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] scan doesn't appear to understand language encodings |
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Fri, 02 Jun 2017 15:30:48 +0200 |
In a message of Fri, 02 Jun 2017 09:10:42 -0400, Ken Hornstein writes:
>>Show prints things perfectly, of course. But it caused me to wonder. If
>>scan can understand how to print 'Hallén' then surely it could understand
>>how to print 'Södermannagatan' as well?
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>Sigh. Technically the problem is with CHARACTER set encodings, not language
>encodings (we handle language encodings as well as any other MUA, in the
>sense that we ignore them).
>I suspect it would display properly IF the encoding was 8-bit and the
>character set matched your native character set; I'm guessing by what
>you showed your local character set is UTF-8, but it was encoded in
>ISO-8859-1 (or something close to that).
Got it in 1. Thank you for the explanation.
Laura