[Pc_Support] Re: Tape drive for small file server .... -- LTO (unless you have existing AIT or DLT assets)

[Paul M Foster]

Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 11:44 -0400, patrick wrote:
>> A funny thing... all your messages, Bryan, come to me with funny
>> characters in the header.  I am running Mozilla Thunderbird, in
>> Kubuntu Breezy 5.10, loaded fresh today, but, was the same on another
>> of my AMD Duron computers, yesterday...  
> 
> I looked at my headers -- both before and after, didn't see anything
> weird.  I then looked at my character set -- UTF-8.  I guess I _could_
> try sending UTF-7 instead, but I don't think it would make any
> difference.
> 
> And since I save my folders to mbox format ...
>   $ file Mail/PC_Support
>   Mail/PC_Support: ISO-8859 English text
> 
>> So, my fonts are interpreting something with an incorrect font
>> character? It only inserts one or two alternate characters, usually in
>> the spaces in the Subject area on the download list in my T Bird,
>> never in the actual reader area...
>> Funny thing, indeed, it seems to happen with only a couple folks,
>> besides you.  Both on the Leaplists, and the PC Support list.
>> Can you shed some light, please?  What can I do to get my fonts to
>> read right?
> 
> Could be some character set support on your end.
> 
> Could also be my Evolution settings.  I've used the same home directory
> with Evolution since old version 1.4 on-ward.  I remember there was a
> conversion at 2.0, but I'm now on 2.6.2.
> 
> I might try blowing away my Evolution directory at some point (2 things
> work weird every since 2.2 or 2.4 IIRC) today and starting with a new
> directory.  The filters and other settings are in XML files, so there's
> no issue there in re-creating most of the other settings.
> 
> 

FWIW, I have the same issue under Thunderbird 1.5, Debian unstable: odd
characters in Bryan's headers. Actually, here's a hint: Thunderbird has
a way of displaying the code for characters it can't display, so you can
tell the hexadecimal for what they are. In this case, the character in
question appears after the "LTO" in the subject, and appears to be
x0009, which would be a tab character. But I'm guessing that Tbird can't
display it because I don't have it set to display UTF8.

-- 
Paul M. Foster