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

[patrick]

Paul M Foster wrote:

> 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.
>
Ah! So!  same funny character pops up for lots of folk, including you, 
in that same header, so I would agree with you... Thanks!