Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 15:02:50 +0500 (ESK) From: Max Gotlib <max@cca.usart.ru> To: gestura@nyherji.is Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: russian language mixes in sendmail Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.981028145543.30204B-100000@linux.cca.usart.ru> In-Reply-To: <002566AA.0057AC58.00@smtpnotes.nyherji.is>
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Hi! Seems to be the problem of multiply russian character sets used in e-mail conversations. There are at least three widely used charsets: koi8-r (koi8-u for Ukrainian) used in unix environments, win1251 M$ proposed charset and cp866 (also known as "alternative") IBM proposed charset. Beside these, there is iso-8859-5 (used in some unixies and Mac) and several 7-bit alternatives (koi7, gost, ...). There is de-facto standard for the "transportation" encoding - koi8-r (but not de-yuro). So, the problem (IMHO) is in user's mailreaders, that could not "understand" each other. The possible solution is to use "charcter-set-on-the-fly-converters", but i'm not sure that it is sutable in "multilingual" mail relaing... Best regards, Max. On Tue, 27 Oct 1998 gestura@nyherji.is wrote: > > Hello, > > does anyone know why email sent in russian special character set mixes up > after beeing handled in the mailing system, I get all kinds of garbage > instead of readable russian letter for my russian users > > I've recently upgraded the sendmail I run on my system to 8.6.1a > > Með kveðju > > G.A.Grjetarsson > gestura@nyherji.is > M.T.S. B.W.Y. > http://www.itn.is/grand > > Nyherji hf > Kerfisþjónusta, netdeild > internet@nyherji.is To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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