[Pc_Support] header characters

[patrick]

Bryan J. Smith wrote:

>On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 11:44 -0400, patrick wrote:
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>
>>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
>
>  
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>>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.
>
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OK, now that I have received some more mail...  I can see that AFTER I 
click upon the header to read it, many of the headers get one character 
that looks like a domino wiht four dots in it, on mail from many list 
members. 

So, yes, it looks like a glitch on my receiver, Thunderbird...
Learning more, each day!

Thanks!