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Re: Charset hiccups with HTML mails display
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Tim Landscheidt |
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Re: Charset hiccups with HTML mails display |
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Date: |
Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:12:52 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
I wrote:
> I have been having for quite some time the problem of HTML
> mails not properly displaying due to charset hiccups (Gnus
> v5.13/GNU Emacs 23.1.1 here) that I need to tackle now.
> The issue is easily explained: A message consisting of
> (only relevant header lines):
> | MIME-Version: 1.0
> | Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> | Content-type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"
> | <html>
> | <body>
> | <p>Test: Ä</p>
> | </body>
> | </html>
> should display "Test: Ä" in some way, but instead it says:
> "Test: \303\204" (i. e. "Ä" encoded in UTF-8).
> mm-text-html-renderer is lynx,
> mm-text-html-renderer-alist's lynx entry is (lynx
> mm-inline-render-with-stdin nil "lynx" "-dump" "-force_html"
> "-stdin" "-nolist"). If I prepend the latter argument list
> with "-display_charset=iso-8859-1", instead of "\303\204"
> "\304" is rendered (i. e. "Ä" encoded in ISO 8859-1).
> So the problem seems to be that Gnus doesn't accept Lynx's
> output as UTF-8 but as some raw binary. I use shell-command/
> shell-command-on-region on a daily basis, so the source of
> the problem does not lie with Emacs in this case.
> Any ideas?
Isn't there even a single kind soul out there who could tem-
porarily set his mm-text-html-renderer to lynx, view an HTML
mail and confirm my report or not? :-)
Tim