[sylpheed:32829] UTF to ISO-8859-1 code conversion error
Celejar
celejar at gmail.com
Wed Jan 21 10:37:01 JST 2009
Hi list and Hiro,
I frequently get this error:
> Code Conversion Error
>
> Can't convert the character encoding of the message body from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1.
>
> Send it as UTF-8 anyway?
When I select yes, the message is encoded as UTF-8. What does this
mean? I seem to see it in at least two different scenarios: when
responding to certain messages with missing or incorrect character
encoding headers, and occasionally when pasting stuff copied from the
web into an outgoing message.
'Common Preferences / Display / Outgoing encoding' is set to 'Automatic
(Recommended).
The problem is discussed here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=447412
but the last message is is over a year old, and the only solution is to
change the aforementioned setting to UTF-8. This solves the problem,
but is this indeed actually the recommended setting?
I note that something similar was discussed on this list about a year
and a half ago, with regard to ISO-8859-16:
http://www.sraoss.jp/pipermail/sylpheed/2007-April/001097.html
but Hiro seemed to think that he'd solve the problem by adding support
for that particular ISO, which "seems to be relatively new":
http://www.sraoss.jp/pipermail/sylpheed/2007-April/001104.html
ISO-8859-1 certainly isn't new.
Celejar
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