Re: [Xnews] Recommended utility to convert UTF-8?

de John Wunderlich 05/08/2006 09:46

Mozzy <demo@account.com> wrote in
news:Xns97BAEA692497701A4D@127.0.0.1:

> Can anyone recommend a utility for Xnews users which converts the
> UTF-8 gobbledegook such as you might get in the Xnews's FROM
> header into a readable format? For example:
>
> From: =?Utf-8?B?QWxpY2U=?=
>
> There seem to be a lot of UTF-8 utils around but which one works
> well for Xnews?
>
> I don't mind if cut & paste is the best to be had if the utility
> is convenient to use.
>

The beauty of UTF-8 is that any normal ASCII-English character encodes
naturally into UTF-8 so that only foreign and esoteric symbols need to
be encoded that way (and Xnews never will support non-ASCII
characters). What you see in the "From" field is more or less a long
stream of characters that translates into "here comes some UTF-8" and
can pretty much be ignored.

I find that if I hover my cursor over such a "From" field in the
Articles window, I find that at the end of the resulting pop-up window
there appears the plain-ASCII version of the From contents somewhere
near the end. Another option is to make your "From" column a lot
wider.

Not what you wanted to hear, but HTH anyway,
-- John