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Subject:    [sylpheed:27113] Re: .signature
From:       Jim Ziegler <jim () jcz ! us>
Date:       2006-01-31 22:37:30
Message-ID: 20060131173730.711bb216.jim () jcz ! us
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The text in the .signature file is in Big5.
I verified it with hexedit.
It is being munged by sylpheed when copying it into a new message.

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:12:50 +0100
Godwin Stewart <gstewart@bonivet.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:07:22 -0500, Jim Ziegler <jim@jcz.us> wrote:
> 
> > Is there a way to suppress the translation and
> > have my signature copied unchanged?
> 
> Make sure the text in your .signature is in the same character set as your
> outbound mail - Big5 in your case. If you're using a UTF-8 locale, the
> console you're working with, and therefore the text file, will most likely
> be in UTF-8. You can convert that by storing the text in another file, say
> sig.txt and then:
> 
> $ iconv -f utf-8 -t big5 sig.txt > ~/.signature
> 
> Other than that, I can't see what could be the problem.
> 
> -- 
> G. Stewart - gstewart@bonivet.net
> 
> "A reputation for releasing inferior software will make it more
>  difficult for a software vendor to induce customers to pay for
>  new products or new versions of existing products."
>               -- Microsoft
> 


-- 
Jim Ziegler ___i__ <jim@jcz.us> 

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