german umlauts with e-mail after installing new system

[Götz Reinicke]

Alexander Apprich schrieb:
> Götz Reinicke wrote:
> 
>> 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... :-(
>>
> 
> What is checked in View->Character encoding in thunderbird/firefox???

at the moment western iso 8859-15....

/Götz

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