On April, 16 1998 at 8:46, Hasan Karahasan, DJ2xt wrote:
Hi together,
I would like to change mhonarc's behaviour how it decodes quoted
printable. I could use "<nodecodeheads", but i do not want to disable it
completely. I need to change the charackter mapping, because mhonarc
generates wrong german umlauts. It recognizes qp coded umlauts, but it
outputs them as umlauts coded according ibm-437. I would prefere
Huh? ibm-437? Could you provide an example? MHonArc has nothing
in it that involves ibm-437 encoding. What is your character set
setting for your browser? What is the character number of the
character in question?
I believe there are other German-speaking based users out there, and I
have not heard anything from them about incorrect characters getting
displayed. Hopefully, those users can confirm their successful
experiences, and possible provide some extra insight on your problem.
iso-8859-1 umlauts.
It appears you are talking about non-ASCII extensions in message
headers. By *default*, MHonArc can handle ASCII and the iso-8859
character sets. For the iso-8859 sets, the 8bit characters are
translated to ISO SGML entity references, with the exception of
iso-8859-1, which is left in raw form since most browsers default to
iso-8859-1.
If your are talking about message data, the above applies, with the
addition that iso-2022-jp is supported. The text/plain filter will use
the same character set converters that are used in non-ASCII extensions
in message headers.
Is there a way to do that?
What you are talking about has nothing to do with quoted-printable
decoding, but character set conversion. If you want to customize, or
add to, the character set conversion process, see the CHARSETCONVERTERS
resource. (BTW, if anyone develops useful/general converters, please
contribute them.)
Note, the iso-8859-* character sets all have the same range of bytes
that are not defined: 128-159 decimal. Hence, if a character appears
in that range, what gets displayed is undefined. It will depend on the
font set you are using. iso-8859-* based fonts will probably show a
blank (X11 world) but some font sets (usually on PCs) define there own
set of characters for that range.
--ewh
