From: Dominikus Scherkl (lyratelle@gmx.de)
Date: Tue May 10 2005 - 11:35:07 CDT
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>This has nothing to do with YOUR (the receiving party's) settings
>But with those of the SENDER - try saving the garbage and open the file in an editor recognizing it (or letting you choose) as UTF-8 text. It will interpret the byte-sequences as arabic letters.
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Sorry, this was not completely correct.
At least with Thunderbird you can choose to show messages with a
selected charset (e.g. UTF-8), if no mime-header declaring something
different is found. (I stumbled over that, now that I've just came home,
because in my Thunderbird I didn't see any garbage at all, not even in
the original message from Mr. Siddiqi).
You can also force a charset, if a message has a false charset-header
(but this will most likey distort the view to any other messages, so it
is only useful as temporary setting - somewhat boring because it is
"hidden" in the extras/options/font dialog).
-- Dominikus
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