Re: [ilugd] indic in mails

2005-09-05 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-09-05 13:11:28 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Kenneth's mail: > X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by ns3.biznetindia.com Ugh. That conversion is within its rights, but I wonder why the MTA is bothering with it at all. It's still a bad idea to send C-T-E: 8bit on the wire (most

Re: [ilugd] indic in mails

2005-09-04 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-09-05 00:53:14 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Kenneth's: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Interesting. In my copies of all of Kenneth's message headers, I see the Content-Transfer-Encoding is not 8bit, but base

Re: [ilugd] indic in mails

2005-09-04 Thread abhay
Pankaj kaushal wrote: > Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > >>On Sunday 04 Sep 2005 8:29 pm, Raj Mathur wrote: >> >> >>>Not really. Kenneth's mail composition client does not line wrap >>>UTF8 messages properly >> >> >>not correct. your mail client cannot render *any* mail with indic in it. >>Kenneth's f

Re: [ilugd] indic in mails

2005-09-04 Thread Pankaj kaushal
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Sunday 04 Sep 2005 8:29 pm, Raj Mathur wrote: > >>Not really. Kenneth's mail composition client does not line wrap >>UTF8 messages properly > > > not correct. your mail client cannot render *any* mail with indic in it. > Kenneth's fault is not in his mail client,

Re: [ilugd] indic in mails

2005-09-04 Thread Raj Mathur
> "ams" == Abhijit Menon-Sen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ams> At 2005-09-04 20:29:41 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Kenneth's mail composition client does not line wrap UTF8 >> messages properly -- the whole message is one long line, which >> is why my mail client doesn't r

Re: [ilugd] indic in mails

2005-09-04 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Sunday 04 Sep 2005 8:29 pm, Raj Mathur wrote: > Not really.  Kenneth's mail composition client does not line wrap > UTF8 messages properly not correct. your mail client cannot render *any* mail with indic in it. Kenneth's fault is not in his mail client, but in the fact that he has indic in h

Re: [ilugd] indic in mails

2005-09-04 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-09-04 20:29:41 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Kenneth's mail composition client does not line wrap UTF8 messages > properly -- the whole message is one long line, which is why my > mail client doesn't render it properly. When I decoded the base64 body of his messages, I did not get o

Re: [ilugd] indic in mails

2005-09-04 Thread Raj Mathur
> "ams" == Abhijit Menon-Sen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ams> At 2005-09-04 19:00:36 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> but the point is, how long should we pander to CLI ppl? ams> Don't be silly. The point is about fixing one specific ams> problem. ams> Your MUA is sendi

Re: [ilugd] indic in mails

2005-09-04 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Sunday 04 Sep 2005 8:10 pm, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: > Spouting ad hominem rubbish does not strengthen your case, > particularly not when essentially the same thing has been said about > the dying breed of "Unix people". just a joke - no intention to start a flame war, consider it withdrawn --

Re: [ilugd] indic in mails

2005-09-04 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-09-04 19:00:36 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > but the point is, how long should we pander to CLI ppl? Don't be silly. The point is about fixing one specific problem. Your MUA is sending (as far as I can tell) properly-encoded UTF-8 text in a perfectly acceptable fashion. If Raju's MU

Re: [ilugd] indic in mails

2005-09-04 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Sunday 04 Sep 2005 10:56 am, Raj Mathur wrote: > > "Kenneth" == Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Kenneth> On Saturday 03 Sep 2005 10:50 pm, Raj Mathur wrote:> > > >> Unfortunately my mail client isn't Indic-enabled, so both your > >> and> Kenneth's mail are still

Re: [ilugd] indic in mails

2005-09-03 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Saturday, 3 Sep 2005 10:50 pm, Raj Mathur wrote: > Unfortunately my mail client isn't Indic-enabled, so both your and > Kenneth's mail are still being received as unformatted. Kenneth had > mentioned he had figured out a way to fix that for text-based clients, > so you may want to try that sett

Re: [ilugd] indic in mails

2005-09-03 Thread Raj Mathur
> "Kenneth" == Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kenneth> On Saturday 03 Sep 2005 10:50 pm, Raj Mathur wrote:> >> Unfortunately my mail client isn't Indic-enabled, so both your >> and> Kenneth's mail are still being received as unformatted. >> Kenneth had> mentione

Re: [ilugd] indic in mails

2005-09-03 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Saturday 03 Sep 2005 10:50 pm, Raj Mathur wrote: > > "Sandip" == Sandip Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Unfortunately my mail client isn't Indic-enabled, so both your and > Kenneth's mail are still being received as unformatted. Kenneth had > mentioned he had figured out a way t

Re: [ilugd] indic in mails

2005-09-03 Thread Raj Mathur
> "Sandip" == Sandip Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sandip> On Saturday, 3 Sep 2005 1:07 am, Linux Lingam wrote:> Sandip> [snip]>> i am using gmail, via firefox, on gnulinux. i see Sandip> ?? characters in your> sig. could you please share Sandip> with me how to e

Re: [ilugd] indic in mails

2005-09-03 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Saturday, 3 Sep 2005 1:07 am, Linux Lingam wrote: > [snip] > > i am using gmail, via firefox, on gnulinux. i see ?? characters in your > sig. could you please share with me how to enable indic-support here? > While your viewing the indic enabled mails require an indic enabled distro, you c

Re: [ilugd] indic in mails

2005-09-02 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Saturday 03 Sep 2005 1:07 am, Linux Lingam wrote: > [snip] > > i am using gmail, via firefox, on gnulinux. i see ?? characters > in your sig. could you please share with me how to enable > indic-support here? what distro? if you are seeing ?? it means that you dont have utf8 on your sy

Re: [ilugd] indic in mails

2005-09-02 Thread Linux Lingam
[snip] i am using gmail, via firefox, on gnulinux. i see ?? characters in your sig. could you please share with me how to enable indic-support here? tia. :-) LL ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/l

[ilugd] indic in mails

2005-09-01 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
hi, with the maturing of indian language support in foss, more and more ppl are using indic in mails. Usually confined to their sigs. For example, my sig says 'long live Indlinux' in a combination of kannada and tamil. This renders in different ways depending on your setup. if you have utf8 ena