german umlauts with e-mail after installing new system
Götz Reinicke
goetz.reinicke at filmakademie.de
Wed May 4 08:38:38 UTC 2005
Alexander,
Alexander Apprich schrieb:
> Goetz,
>
> Götz Reinicke wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I recently installed a new e-mail-server using taolinux 4 (RHEL4) and
>> got some problems with german umlauts.
>>
>> That I tested was sending an e-mail from our webmailsystem twig and an
>> other from my thunderbird client.
>>
>> I got two diffrent results:
>>
>> sending from twig lets the subject (ö, ä, ü) unchanged, the mailtext
>> is unreadebel.
>>
>> sending from thunderbird changes the subject to strange symbols, the
>> mail text is fine.
>>
>> I use sendmail.
>>
>> Where can I look, for what could be wrong?
>
>
> try in a teminal
>
> export LANG=de_DE
>
> then start your mailer and try it again. I had some strange experience
> w/ the default de_DE.UTF8 and german umlaute...
>
> If this fixes your problem, you can change the default LANG in
>
> /etc/sysconfig/118n
This didn't solve the problem, I still get a mismatch off umlauts and
strange characters... :-(
Regards
Götz
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