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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#47023: df utilility displays G instead of GM as unit size for Gigabytes in power of 1000 |
Date: | Wed, 10 Mar 2021 15:21:29 -0800 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.7.1 |
On 3/10/21 2:50 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
You are using a local 8-bit encoding, whereas everyone else was using UTF-8. Your mailer re-encoded their messages into one of the 8-bit western encodings, whereas most people use UTF-8 these days, so while their original messages with accents came through just fine in UTF-8, your re-encoding into Western didn't display properly.
Although his email did reencode those names into ISO 8859-1 which is more likely to cause problems than cure them these days, it still displays well on my MUA (Thunderbird) because its header said "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1". His email is also displaying properly in the archive <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=47023#16>, as the archiving software reencodes those names back into UTF-8 and the web page uses "Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8" for all the emails.
Possibly your email client is programmed to ignore encodings in incoming "Content-Type" lines; that would explain the glitches you saw.
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