Subject: cert (fwd)

From: Bret Busby <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 13:01:34 +0800 (WST)

Can someone please explain why my messages are being interpreted as an 
unknown character set, when I forward messages from the CERT? As far as 
I am aware, the CERT advisories are in plain text format, as viewing 
them indicates nothing else, and I have my settings configured for plain 
text. Anything other than plain text foramt, is usually prefaced by a 
message indicating that it is of another character set (eg ISO 8859-1).

I have my character set, set as US-ASCII, to ensure that outgoing 
messages are sent in plain text, but get the following occurring.

I have deleted the email address of the person who sent me the error 
message, and, the To: address, to which I had sent the message.

Thanks in anticipation.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
  Chapter 28 of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Douglas Adams, 1988
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Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 07:17:50 +0800 
To: "Bret Busby " <[email-masked]>
Subject: cert

Bret, 

Your CERT mail was in an unknown character set  - can you check your
settings.

Anne

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From: Bret Busby <[email-masked]>
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Subject: CERT Summary CS-2002-03 (fwd)

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Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 17:39:39 -0400
From: CERT Advisory <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Subject: CERT Summary CS-2002-03

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From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 08:11:03 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time)

> messages are sent in plain text, but get the following occurring.

I don't what's wrong with the cert message but if you read Pine's
Help on character-set, you'll see that setting it to US-ASCII
does not ensure that messages are sent in plain text. Here's the
relevant excerpt:

 OPTION: Character-Set

 [...]
 If this option is not set and the message text you are sending or
 any text attachments are found to contain non US-ASCII (or
 "8-bit") characters, then Pine will label the text as
 "X-UNKNOWN".

So it seems likely that there is an 8-bit character in the
message and I recommend that you set character-set to whatever is
the character coding that you use for most of your
correspondence. For example, if you usually correspond in a
Western European language, such as English, you will probably set
it to ISO-8859-1, which is also known as “ISO Latin 1. I discuss
character-set here

 <http://www.ii.com/internet/messaging/pine/pc/#character-set>

And on my main Pine page, I have this Pine wish:

* Clean up the way the character-set variable works in Pine. At a
  minimum, tell the user if a message she is about to send will be
  labeled as something other than US-ASCII.

That and my other Pine wishes are here:

 <http://www.ii.com/internet/messaging/pine/#wishesMisc>

HTH,
Nancy

-- 
Nancy McGough
Infinite Ink
<http://www.ii.com/>

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From: Bret Busby <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 16:48:24 +0800 (WST)

On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Nancy McGough wrote:

> Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 08:11:03 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time)
> From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
> Subject: Re: cert (fwd)
> 

Thanks, Nancy.

Deleted US-ASCII from character setting; it defaulted to ISO 8859-1 
(help page said that it would default to US-ASCII (?) ), set it to that, 
and I have just received confirmation that it worked okay.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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