Received messages with an deviating character set

[Picsou]

Hi,

I receive now and then a message that has been made with a different
character set (code page) then mine.
This is annoying because they show all the formatting characters (CR, LF,
Bold, etc).

Is there any way to overcome this ?

Thanks

 

[Pat Willener]

What is the encoding of these messages?

 

[Picsou]

It is iso-8859-1

What is the encoding of these messages?

 

[Pat Willener]

Ok, this is normal. Now I am a little bit curious how you see these
formatting characters; can you give some examples? Is it HTML tags like
<B>, or
and
?

 

[Picsou]

Hi Pat, it looks like this :

<br><br>A très bientôt sur notre site,<br><br>L’équipe relation
clients<br></font>

 

[Pat Willener]

I see - these are HTML code tags. It appears as if the sending mail
clients do not specify the Content-Type correctly (text/plain instead of
text/html). Can you find the Content-Type in the headers of the received
messages?

 

[Picsou]

Yes I can Pat, here it is :

Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

 

[Pat Willener]

That is interesting, as it looks correct. However, all cases I can find
in my mailbox have apostrophes around the charset:

Content-type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"

I don't know if this could cause the Content-Type to be ignored? Anybody
knows?