On Mon, 2012-10-22 at 11:27 -0500, Kevin Martin wrote:
in ThunderBird 16.0.1 on Fedora Rawhide an email that Tim sent thru
shows this in his comments:
In the /etc/default/grub file, I added this line:
GRUB_GFXMODE=800x600
The above has been automatically corrected by my mail client when I hit
reply. Kevin's quoted posting had erroneous additional characters in
it, which appear due to Thunderbird not knowing how to decode UTF-7, so
it showed the encoded character without any decoding.
I've changed my mail client's encoding configuration, some time ago,
since people have found it didn't decode properly.
To re-write the instructions, which I'm sure were from another message
thread, the line being added to the GRUB file should be two words
separated by an underscore, equals, eight-hundred by six-hundred:
GRUB_GFXMODE=800x600
The UTF-7 encoding seemed to be encoding the underscore, and the equals
signs. Which seems peculiar characters to have to encode, rather than
send as-is, because they're part of 7-bit US-ASCII.
I missed what the point of setting UTF-7 was in the first place but
it
seems to break more than it fixes.
The point was *supposed* to be that it would pass through *some*
servers, unmolested, because it was all 7-bit data, to start with.
*Those* servers which think that they should transcode any 8-bit message
that comes them into 7-bit. Of course, there are also servers that
think that they should transcode 7-bit mail into more modern 8-bit mail,
or something else.
In either case, they're allegedly being helpful, but the reality being
somewhat different. Whenever you transcode there's a risk of an error
occurring. And you make it even harder for the recipient to untangle
the mess.
The point has been made, and I think proved, that the original idea of
UTF-7 being a solution, doesn't work. *Helpful* servers may still
transcode mail on the way through. And, even after all these years,
plenty of software doesn't support UTF-7.
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Anyway, after all this hijacking of my original message, had anybody
else tried what I did to make Skype work? Not needed to? Had a
different experience?
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[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.6.2-4.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Oct 17 02:43:21 UTC 2012 x86_64
All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point
trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the
public lists.