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List:       sylpheed
Subject:    [sylpheed:27899] Re: Encoding of the euro symbol
From:       Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y () kcn ! ne ! jp>
Date:       2006-05-17 5:08:00
Message-ID: 20060517140800.fd4e9bcf.hiro-y () kcn ! ne ! jp
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Hello,

On Wed, 17 May 2006 00:36:14 +0200
Laurent Bigonville <l.bigonville@edpnet.be> wrote:

> On Wed, 17 May 2006 00:23:24 +0200
> Gil Andre <andre.g@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hi Laurent,
> > 
> > On Tue, 16 May 2006 21:30:50 +0200 Laurent Bigonville
> > <l.bigonville@edpnet.be> wrote:
> > > If I send an email with the euro symbol (€) in the message and the
> > > encoding is set to 'automatic', sylpheed says that he cannot
> > > convert the encoding in iso-8859-1 and ask me if I want to send
> > > it in utf8. Sylpheed should send the message in iso-8859-15
> > > instead.
> > > 
> > > My locals are fr_BE.UTF-8
> > 
> > Sylpheed picks up your local value as the default. That's
> > why you get UTF-8 instead of iso-8859-15. Try changing your
> > local defaults, or wait for a more intelligent answer than
> > mine...   :-)
> 
> Thanks, but I've already done that. The problem is why sylpheed try to
> convert the message to iso-8859-1 and not to iso-8859-15.

You must add "@euro" to the locale name for iso-8859-15 to be selected
automatically (such as "fr_BE@euro").

Alternatively you can select your favorite encoding from 'Common prefs
- Display - Encoding - Outgoing encoding'.

-- 
Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y@kcn.ne.jp>

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