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Subject: Re: How does Majordomo manages ISO-8859-1 characters?
From: Mikko Hänninen <Mikko . Hanninen @ iki . fi>
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Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 20:13:53 +0300
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In-reply-to: <ufaaer6f45c.fsf@epithumia.math.uh.edu>; from tibbs@hpc.uh.edu on Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 09:17:35PM -0500
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tibbs@hpc.uh.edu <tibbs@hpc.uh.edu> wrote on Wed, 01 Sep 1999:
> Which is exactly as it should be.  Message headers _must_ be sent in plain
> old 7-bit ASCII.  To encode other character sets in headers, the method
> outlines in RFC2047 is used.  It results in headers which look like what
> you've quoted.

What about digests?  I administer a mailing list, and if someone send
email to the list with a From: header encoded in this way, the result
in the digest messages looks like this:

------------------------------

From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mikko_H=E4nninen?= <Mikko.Hanninen@iki.fi>
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 23:18:37 +0200
Subject: whatever

...


I realise that Majordomo just doesn't do any decoding for From: lines
and uses what's there exactly, but having this solved so that the sender
information appears correctly would be nice.


Mikko
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