[XeTeX] Content-Type in XeTeX Digest

[Ross Moore]

Hi Jonathan, Barry, Karl, Kaja,

On 22/05/2008, at 4:10 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote:
> On 21 May 2008, at 6:46 pm, Barry MacKichan wrote:
>
>> This is not a XeTeX question, but a question about the mail for this
>> list. I get the XeTeX Digest, and for months (from the time I
>> joined) I
>> have been seeing lots of question marks, such as in the snippet  
>> below.
>> It sounds like the rest of you are seeing more. When I change the
>> character encoding in my email client to UTF-8 (Thunderbird) it
>> makes no
>> difference. (FWIW, I can display Korean and Russian spam with no
>> problem).
>>
>> When I look at the complete headers for a XeTeX Digest message, I  
>> see:
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

ugh; that's a bit primitive.

>>
>> My understanding is that pipermail at tex.org is setting those
>> headers.
>>
>> My questions: Is anyone else having this problem? Is it my problem
>> or is
>> it TUG's? Any suggestions?
>
> This sounds to me like a misconfiguration of the mail list or server.
> The original message is fine, as you can see in the archives:
>
>    http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2008-May/009797.html
>
> but apparently the digest isn't dealing with charsets properly.
>
> I don't know if this is an issue with the individual list's setup
> (Ross, are you listening?) or the pipermail server in general (Karl
> or someone?).

I cannot find any option concerning this in the online interface.
So it must be handled at a deeper level.
Karl or Kaja, can you help with this problem ?


>
> JK


Cheers,

	Ross

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