----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Lonvick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Rainer Gerhards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 2:18 PM Subject: RE: [Syslog] #5 - character encoding (was: Consensus?)
> Hi Rainer, > > Let's use this email as an example. :) There is no indication that I'm > using US-ASCII encoding or that I'm writing in English. Actually, Chris, there is; when I receive this e-mail, the header contains Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed so implicitly or explicitly you are telling me it is US-ASCII By contrast, e-mails from Rainer, contain Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This reply is in charset="iso-8859-1" but by default, my Windows MUA replies in the charset the message came in, so that replying to you I could not then spell Müller properly which I could do to Rainer. On the other hand, when replying to you, Windows inserts > to denote the incoming text which it suppresses when I reply to Rainer. And some e-mails I receive are not in US-ASCII but lack the charset= in which case the display on screen is somewhat or totally corrupted. So MIME does an ok job but can be fooled by the rest of the system; if we can do that well with syslog, we should be proud of ourselves. Tom Petch _______________________________________________ Syslog mailing list Syslog@lists.ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/syslog
