Package: lists.debian.org Severity: normal Hi,
It seems that our mailing list software have serious encoding error on debian-chinese-gb archive. Look on the web archive in recent 3 months, most chinese mails are displayed as garbage. Changing character set in web browser doesn't help at all. There are at least two different situations: 1. Mails in UTF-8 encoding Both subject and body are totally messed. Every chinese character is displayed as an accented character, like "ä" or "å". Such as, "Re: æåmuttääçéäåèçéé" [1]. 2. Mails in gb2312/gb18030 base64/quotedprint encoding These mails' content can be displayed correctly. But titles are not decoded and showed as raw text. such as, "=?gb2312?b?UmU6IHFyZWYguPHKvdDe1f0=?=" [2] But, if the mail is claimed as gbk encoding, everything looks correct. Here[3] is an example. (gb2312 is the subset of gbk, gbk is the subset of gb18030) Although our chinese lists are called "...-gb" and "...-big5", but most people are using UTF-8 encoding nowadays. So if we have only one decoding choice, I suggest UTF-8. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-chinese-gb/2006/05/msg00116.html [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-chinese-gb/2006/08/msg00011.html [3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-chinese-gb/2006/05/msg00109.html -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-1-686 Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
