Now the computer speaks better Greek than I do!

[Giorgos Keramidas]

O mailer sou einai blammenos.  Koita ti headers ebale se mail pou sto
body eixe ellhnikous xarakthres:

	X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1
	Mime-Version: 1.0
	Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed

Me tetoia headers polloi mail servers tha kseskisoun ta 8-bit
characters, eno polloi mail clients den tha ta deijoun kan.  Sto mutt
p.x. fainontai san erothmatika ola ta ellhnika:

>>> ???????.  ? ????? ????(??) ????? ???? ??? ??? ?????? ?? ??? ?? UNIX
>>> ??? ????? locales.  ??? ????? ???? ?? ?? export.  ?? ???????? ?????
>>> distribution-specific ????????????.

Pikra, me liga logia!  Mia lush einai na allakseis mailer.  Mia allh
lush, an kai mpakalikh einai na baleis to default charset se OLA ta
mail sou se iso-8859-7.  Auto tha sou epitrepei omws na grafeis mono
ellhnika sta mail pou exoun 8-bit xarakthres, ki an epikoinoneis kai
me atoma pou xreiazontai kati allo (p.x. iso-8859-1) den ekanes tipota :/

To idaniko einai enas mailer pou epitrepei na allakseis on-the-fly to
encoding me to opoio tha stalei kati.

On 2002-08-22 10:57 +0000, Giannis Vrentzos <gvre at her.forthnet.gr> wrote:
>At 04:18 22/08/2002 +0300, you wrote:

you who ?

>> Ayth pou perigrafeis den einai h "swsth lysh"(TM). Einai h
>>"Failsafe"(/portable) lysh. H "swsth lysh"(TM) sto RedHat 7.3 pou exei
>>aytos einai ayth pou egrapsa egw.
>
> Pistevw oti oi apanthseis pou dinonte mesa apo thn lista prepei na
> einai portable gia ton logo oti an kapoia stigmh o erwtwn alla3ei
> distro 'h xrhsimopoiei 2 diaforetikes 8a prepei na 3anakanei thn
> idia erwthsh.Ektos apo ayto mia portable lysh mporei na voh8hsei kai
> kapoious allous pou exoun to idio provlima na to lisoun xwris na
> xreiastei na steiloun email sth lista kai na mpoun sthn diadikasia
> kapoioi alloi na apanthsoun gia kati to opoio exei hdh apanth8ei .

Nai ok, to portability den einai asxhmo, alla den to afhnoume to
thread tora.  Olofanerotato flame-bait htan ki epiase :P

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