Re: [cgmo-webcgm] RE: "From" on your messages

[Lofton Henderson <lofton@rockynet.com>]

At 06:14 PM 10/11/2005 +0200, Dieter  Weidenbrück wrote:
>Well, the email contained japanese characters, that caused the problem.
>
>I suppose that led to the from field being encoded as well, probably as
>UTF-8, and
>then escaped...

...ah, and Benoit has a different mail client, which doesn't encode the 
 From field because of the japanese characters in the message body.  That 
would explain it.

-Lofton.


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lofton Henderson [mailto:lofton@rockynet.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 5:45 PM
> > To: dieter Weidenbruck
> > Cc: cgmo-webcgm@lists.oasis-open.org
> > Subject: "From" on your messages
> >
> > Hi Dieter,
> >
> > I have been having a hard time finding your messages (on the URI/IRI
> > thread) in my mail client, Eudora on WinXP.  When I look at
> > the TC archive [1] (using either IE or NN), I see the
> > problem.  For example:
> >
> > > From =?GB2312?B?RGlldGVyICBXZWlkZW5icqi5Y2s=?=
> > <dieter@itedo.com> on
> > > 11 Oct 2005 14:15:10 -0000
> >
> > So it isn't just a Eudora problem, the TC mail handler seems
> > to have issues as well.
> >
> > It is the long string of stuff before "<dieter..." that is
> > the problem (it looks like some sort of character-coding or
> > character-set announcer).  I'm no expert on these arcane
> > details, but ... is there something you can do to make that stop?
> >
> > I'm copying the TC list, just in case others (like me) have
> > been missing your messages (I was alerted to their presence
> > by Benoit's replies to you
> > -- his replies come through just fine, even when carrying the
> > same embedded message bodies).
> >
> > Cheers,
> > -Lofton.
> >
> > [1]
> > http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/cgmo-webcgm/200510/maillist.html
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >