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. -------------------------- 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? -- [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. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
